# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-black
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:11:36.700Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-black"
name: "William Black"
slug: "william-black"
description: "William Black was a novelist born in Glasgow, Scotland. During his lifetime, Black's novels were immensely popular and compared favourably with those of Anthony Trollope. However, his fame and popularity did not survive long into the 20th century."
tagline: "British novelist (1841–1898)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Black_c1870s.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1841-11-13"
deathDate: "1898-12-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.69
  momentum:             0.2010050251256281
  historical:           10.94794933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/8cf23e51-dac3-4ee6-8828-f6e692ebc2b3"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%85_%D8%A8%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%83_(%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A)"
    title: "وليم بلاك (روائي)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%A8%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%83_(%D8%B5%D8%AD%D9%81%D9%89)"
    title: "ويليام بلاك (صحفى)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Black"
    title: "William Black"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Black"
    title: "William Black"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Black"
    title: "William Black"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Black_(novelist)"
    title: "William Black (novelist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Black"
    title: "William Black"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%95%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%90%D7%9D_%D7%91%D7%9C%D7%90%D7%A7"
    title: "ויליאם בלאק"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Black_(scrittore)"
    title: "William Black (scrittore)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Black"
    title: "William Black"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Black"
    title: "William Black"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tl.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Black"
    title: "William Black"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1397722"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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