# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-dietrich
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:56:24.471Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-dietrich"
name: "William Dietrich"
slug: "william-dietrich"
description: "William Alan Dietrich is an American novelist, non-fiction writer, journalist, and college professor. His historical novels and thrillers have made bestseller lists and his Ethan Gage series, set during the Napoleonic Wars, have sold in 28 languages. He has also written novels set in the Roman Empire, Antarctica, and Australia. His non-fiction works are natural history and environmental history of the Pacific Northwest."
tagline: "American writer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1951-09-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.24
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.01314
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.williamdietrich.com"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%85_%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B4"
    title: "وليم ديتريش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%85_%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B4"
    title: "وليم ديتريش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Dietrich_(novelist)"
    title: "William Dietrich (novelist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Dietrich"
    title: "William Dietrich"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Dietrich"
    title: "William Dietrich"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Dietrich"
    title: "William Dietrich"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bs.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Dietrich"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3045157"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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