# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/w-o-mitchell
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:54:21.660Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/w-o-mitchell"
name: "W. O. Mitchell"
slug: "w-o-mitchell"
description: "William Ormond Mitchell was a Canadian writer and broadcaster. His \"best-loved\" novel is Who Has Seen the Wind (1947), which portrays life on the Canadian Prairies from the point of view of a small boy and sold almost a million copies in Canada. As a broadcaster, he is known for his radio series Jake and the Kid, which aired on CBC Radio between 1950 and 1956 and was also about life on the Prairies."
tagline: "Canadian writer (1914–1998)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/20/William_Ormond_Mitchell.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1914-03-13"
deathDate: "1998-02-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.67
  momentum:             1.652173913043478
  historical:           7.890786666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0593801/"
    handle:    "nm0593801"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/7efc0de1-2ff0-459f-985c-c5d626dde446"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%A8%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88_%D8%A5%D9%88._%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "دبليو إو. ميتشيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilyam_Mit%C3%A7el"
    title: "Vilyam Mitçel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._O._Mitchell"
    title: "W. O. Mitchell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._O._Mitchell"
    title: "W. O. Mitchell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%A8%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%88._%D8%A7%D9%88._%D9%85%DB%8C%DA%86%D9%84"
    title: "دبلیو. او. میچل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Ormond_Mitchell"
    title: "William Ormond Mitchell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BB%2C_%D0%A3%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F%D0%BC_%D0%9E%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B4"
    title: "Митчелл, Уильям Ормонд"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7945857"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2690204"
    title: "W.O. Mitchell"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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