# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/theodore-hook
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:20:40.557Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/theodore-hook"
name: "Theodore Hook"
slug: "theodore-hook"
description: "Theodore Edward Hook was an English writer, intellectual, prankster and civil servant. One of the first writers of the English fashionable novel, he is best known for his practical jokes, particularly the Berners Street hoax in 1810. The world's first postcard was received by Hook in 1840; he likely posted it to himself."
tagline: "British writer (1788-1841)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Theodore_Edward_Hook_by_Eden_Upton_Eddis.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1788-09-22"
deathDate: "1841-08-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.49
  momentum:             9
  historical:           11.61566
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "ثيودور هووك"
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    title: "Theodore Hook"
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    title: "Theodore Hook"
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    title: "Theodore Hook"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Hook"
    title: "Theodore Hook"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Edward_Hook"
    title: "Theodore Edward Hook"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Theodore Hook"
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    title: "Theodore Hook"
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    title: "Хук, Теодор"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump