# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-lyon-phelps
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:01:01.218Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-lyon-phelps"
name: "William Lyon Phelps"
slug: "william-lyon-phelps"
description: "William Lyon Phelps was an American author, critic and scholar. He taught the first American university course on the modern novel. He had a radio show, wrote a daily syndicated newspaper column, lectured frequently, and published numerous books and articles."
tagline: "American author, critic and scholar (1865–1943)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/WilliamLyonPhelps1895.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1865-01-02"
deathDate: "1943-08-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.37
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.945141333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "ويليام ليون فيلبس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lyon_Phelps"
    title: "William Lyon Phelps"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lyon_Phelps"
    title: "William Lyon Phelps"
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  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lyon_Phelps"
    title: "William Lyon Phelps"
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  - url: "https://cs.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Lyon_Phelps"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Lyon_Phelps"
    title: "Wikiquote"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2577771"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump