# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-brooks
# Generated: 2026-08-12T16:37:15.610Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-brooks"
name: "Peter Brooks"
slug: "peter-brooks"
description: "Peter Preston Brooks is an American literary scholar, interdisciplinary humanist, and writer known for his work on narrative theory, psychoanalysis and literature, melodrama, law and literature, and the institutional place of the humanities. Over a career spanning Yale University, the University of Virginia, and Princeton University, Brooks played an influential role in shaping comparative literature, narrative studies, and the institutional frameworks that support humanistic scholarship."
tagline: "American writer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1938-04-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.58
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.156697333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Brooks"
    title: "Peter Brooks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B1_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%83%D8%B3"
    title: "بيتر بروكس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B1_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%83%D8%B3_(%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%82%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%A8%D9%89_%D9%85%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%A7)"
    title: "بيتر بروكس (ناقد ادبى من امريكا)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%8A%D1%80_%D0%91%D1%80%D1%83%D0%BA%D1%81"
    title: "Питър Брукс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Brooks_(writer)"
    title: "Peter Brooks (writer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Brooks"
    title: "Peter Brooks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Brooks"
    title: "Peter Brooks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2011663"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump