# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pauline-hopkins
# Generated: 2026-08-15T06:27:30.589Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/pauline-hopkins"
name: "Pauline Hopkins"
slug: "pauline-hopkins"
description: "Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins was an American novelist, journalist, playwright, historian, and editor. She is considered a pioneer in her use of the romantic novel to explore social and racial themes, as demonstrated in her first major novel Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South. In addition, Hopkins is known for her significant contributions as editor for the Colored American Magazine, which was recognized as being among the first periodicals specifically celebrating African-American culture through short stories, essays and serial novels. She is also known to have had connections to other influential African Americans of the time, such as Booker T. Washington and William Wells Brown."
tagline: "American novelist, journalist, playwright, historian, and editor (1859-1930)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Pauline_Elizabeth_Hopkins_circa_1901.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1859-05-23"
deathDate: "1930-08-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.3
  momentum:             6.666666666666666
  historical:           7.014184
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Pauline Hopkins"
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    title: "Pauline Hopkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_Hopkins"
    title: "Pauline Hopkins"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_Hopkins"
    title: "Pauline Hopkins"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump