# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/will-james
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:36:37.995Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/will-james"
name: "Will James"
slug: "will-james"
description: "William Roderick James was a Canadian-American artist and writer of the American West. He is known for writing Smoky the Cowhorse, for which he won the 1927 Newbery Medal, and numerous \"cowboy\" stories for adults and children. His artwork, which predominantly involved cowboy and rodeo scenes, followed \"in the tradition of Charles Russell\", and much of it was used to illustrate his books. In 1992, he was inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum."
tagline: "Novelist, children's writer, artist (1892-1942)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Will_James%2C_artist.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1892-06-06"
deathDate: "1942-09-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.1
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.489022666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0417020/"
    handle:    "nm0417020"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_James_(artist)"
    title: "Will James (artist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3_(%D9%81%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%86)"
    title: "ويل جيمس (فنان)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3"
    title: "ويل جيمس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%AC%DB%8C%D9%85%D8%B2_(%D8%A2%D8%B1%D9%B9%D8%B3%D9%B9)"
    title: "ول جیمز (آرٹسٹ)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_James"
    title: "Will James"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_James"
    title: "Will James"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3568291"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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