# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/timothy-shay-arthur
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:25:43.643Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/timothy-shay-arthur"
name: "Timothy Shay Arthur"
slug: "timothy-shay-arthur"
description: "Timothy Shay Arthur — known as T. S. Arthur — was a popular 19th-century American writer. He is famously known for his temperance novel Ten Nights in a Bar-Room and What I Saw There (1854), which helped demonize alcohol in the eyes of the American public."
tagline: "American novelist, short story writer and publisher (1809–1885)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Timothy_Shay_Arthur.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1809-06-06"
deathDate: "1885-03-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.98
  momentum:             8.68421052631579
  historical:           4.607776
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "تيموثي آرثر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%88%D8%AB%D9%89_%D8%A2%D8%B1%D8%AB%D8%B1"
    title: "تيموثى آرثر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Shay_Arthur"
    title: "Timothy Shay Arthur"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Shay_Arthur"
    title: "Timothy Shay Arthur"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Timothy_Shay_Arthur"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2435319"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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