# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sam-walter-foss
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:06:15.647Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sam-walter-foss"
name: "Sam Walter Foss"
slug: "sam-walter-foss"
description: "Sam Walter Foss was an American librarian and poet whose best-known works included \"The Coming American\" and \"The House by the Side of the Road\"."
tagline: "American writer (1858–1911)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sam_Walter_Foss.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1858-06-19"
deathDate: "1911-02-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.06
  momentum:             16.18110236220473
  historical:           3.948669333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%B1_%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B3"
    title: "سام والتر فوس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Walter_Foss"
    title: "Sam Walter Foss"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Walter_Foss"
    title: "Sam Walter Foss"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sam_Walter_Foss"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5938568"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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