# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/virginia-cowles
# Generated: 2026-08-14T22:04:11.000Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/virginia-cowles"
name: "Virginia Cowles"
slug: "virginia-cowles"
description: "Harriet Virginia Spencer Cowles was an American journalist, biographer, and travel writer. During her long career, Cowles went from covering fashion, to covering the Spanish Civil War, the turbulent period in Europe leading up to World War II, and the entire war. Her service as a correspondent was recognized by the British government with an OBE in 1947. After the war, she published a number of critically acclaimed biographies of historical figures. In 1983, while traveling with her husband, she was killed in an automobile accident which left him severely injured."
tagline: "Journalist, war correspondent (1910–1983)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9c/Virginia_Cowles.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1910-08-24"
deathDate: "1983-09-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.69
  momentum:             14.13817390190805
  historical:           5.485638666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Virginia Cowles"
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    title: "فيرجينيا كولز"
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    title: "فيرجينيا كولز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Virginia Cowles"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Cowles"
    title: "Virginia Cowles"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Cowles"
    title: "Virginia Cowles"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1479296"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump