# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ronald-wright
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:52:21.540Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ronald-wright"
name: "Ronald Wright"
slug: "ronald-wright"
description: "Ronald Wright is a Canadian author who has written books of travel, history and fiction. His nonfiction includes the bestseller Stolen Continents, winner of the Gordon Montador Award and chosen as a book of the year by The Independent and the Sunday Times. His first novel, A Scientific Romance, won the 1997 David Higham Prize for Fiction and was chosen a book of the year by the Globe and Mail, the Sunday Times, and The New York Times."
tagline: "Canadian author"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ronald_Wright_Edmonton_2007_cropped.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1948"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.73
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.079554666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://ronaldwright.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/48ad5eb8-f634-4fb6-99ad-f827ae8d18fa"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF_%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%AA_(%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%A8)"
    title: "رونالد رايت (كاتب)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "رونالد رايت (مؤرخ من كندا)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Wright_(Autor)"
    title: "Ronald Wright (Autor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Wright"
    title: "Ronald Wright"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Wright"
    title: "Ronald Wright"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Wright"
    title: "Ronald Wright"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Wright_(pisarz)"
    title: "Ronald Wright (pisarz)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Wright"
    title: "Ronald Wright"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1348862"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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