# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rossiter-johnson
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:41:34.325Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rossiter-johnson"
name: "Rossiter Johnson"
slug: "rossiter-johnson"
description: "Rossiter Johnson was an American author and editor. He edited several encyclopedias, dictionaries, and books, and was one of the first editors to publish \"pocket\" editions of the classics. He was also an author of histories, novels, and poetry. Among his best known works was Phaeton Rogers, a novel of boyhood in Rochester, New York, where Johnson was born."
tagline: "American writer and editor (1840–1931)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/CAB_Johnson_Rossiter.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1840-01-27"
deathDate: "1931"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.65
  momentum:             3.571428571428573
  historical:           3.937437333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A1%CF%8C%CF%83%CE%B9%CF%84%CE%B5%CF%81_%CE%A4%CE%B6%CF%8C%CE%BD%CF%83%CE%BF%CE%BD"
    title: "Ρόσιτερ Τζόνσον"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rossiter_Johnson"
    title: "Rossiter Johnson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rossiter_Johnson"
    title: "Rossiter Johnson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%A0%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80"
    title: "Джонсон, Росситер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7369859"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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