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Rainbow Rowell

American children's writer
Person human Q15703238

Facts

21 properties
Instance of
human
Sex or gender
female[15]
Date of birth
February 24, 1973
Place of birth
Nebraska, Nebraska City[8]
Country of citizenship
United States[9]
Occupation
writer, novelist, journalist, children's writer, prose writer, columnist, young adult author[11][12]
Educated at
University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Omaha North High School[13][14]
Genre
young adult literature, romance[16][17]
Official website
www.rainbowrowell.com[20]
Nominated for
Locus Award for Best Young Adult Book[23]
Languages spoken, written or signed
English[24]
Described by source
Iedereen Leest, Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction[21][22]
Family name
Rowell[18]
Given name
Rainbow[19]
Maintained by WikiProject
Wikiproject Iedereen Leest[27]
Name in native language
Rainbow Rowell[25]
Native language
English[10]
P14750
36A6-C249-765D-E800-3668
Social media followers
184k (184k–202k, n=3)
Start of work period
2011[26]
Writing language
English[28]
🏷️ Also known as
en Rainbow Rowell ar راينبو رويل fa رینبو راول ja レインボー・ローウェル ru Рейнбоу Рауэлл uk Равелл Рейнбоу zh 蘭波·羅威
🔖 Identifiers · 64
ISNI
000000009353786X
VIAF cluster ID
137448631
Library of Congress authority ID
n2010058327
GND ID
101697258X
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Rainbow Rowell 2019 Texas Book Festival.jpg ↗
BIBSYS ID
14025281
BNB person ID (OBSOLETE)
RowellRainbow
Babelio author ID
228845
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
16638566w
BookBrainz author ID
92df2e8f-dacf-4b96-9dfe-a3fd6972b79f
CANTIC ID
981058528966606706
CBDB.cz author ID
62071
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CONOR.SI ID
249582179
Canadiana Name Authority ID
ncf10727096
DBC author ID
87097969220290
DDB person (GND) ID
101697258X
Databazeknih.cz author ID
70521
ELNET ID
a11783515
Europeana entity
agent/base/142865
Facebook username
rainbow.rowell.author
Fantastic Fiction author ID
r/rainbow-rowell
Flemish Public Libraries ID
000045513
Freebase ID
/m/0rz7rnx
GCD creator ID
14205
Goodreads author ID
4208569
IMDb ID
nm6885596
ISFDB author ID
204002
IdRef ID
177328584
Jeugdliteratuur ID
rainbow-rowell
Libraries Australia ID
55252368
LibraryThing author ID
rowellrainbow
Libris-URI
1zcgpdzk4nqk099
NDL Authority ID
001224502
NL CR AUT ID
xx0184290
NSK (VIAF) ID
000647872
NSK ID
981005694782809366
NUKAT ID
n2015047709
National Library of Brazil ID
001474915
National Library of Chile ID
000290624
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007585328205171
National Library of Korea ID
KAC201408092
National Library of Latvia ID
000222108
National Library of Lithuania ID
LNB:CVYR;=Bg
National Library of Poland MMS ID
9810658726005606
National Library of Portugal ID
1601836
National Library of Russia ID
770159170
National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID (BNE v1.0)
XX5341713
Nationale Thesaurus voor Auteursnamen ID
336123582
Nebraska Authors author ID
rainbow-rowell
Open Library ID
OL6864487A
Penguin Random House author ID
168229
Podchaser creator ID
107a98iawQ
Prabook ID
1932111
Quora topic ID
Rainbow-Rowell
RERO ID (legacy)
A024142814
Ricochet author ID
rainbow-rowell
SELIBR ID
400877
SVKKL authority ID
0341509-Rowell-Rainbow
Slovak National Library (VIAF) ID
vtls011094552
Tor.com author ID
rainbow-rowell
University of Barcelona authority ID
981058528966606706
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJqQBTHYFRPPQxjdbdvGpP
X (Twitter) username
rainbowrowell
Yale LUX ID
person/72c32b53-1bd3-4cf1-a7c3-7d1ef8d9ecb5

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🔗 Connections
Occupation 5
writer, journalist, novelist, children's writer, prose writer
Genre 2
young adult literature, romance
Place of birth 2
Nebraska, Nebraska City
Works by author 2
Eleanor & Park, Fangirl
Country of citizenship 1
United States
Educated at 1
University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Instance of 1
human
Languages spoken, written or signed 1
English
Native language 1
English
Nominated for 1
Locus Award for Best Young Adult Book
Sex or gender 1
female
Writing language 1
English
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Summary

Rainbow Rowell was born on February 24, 1973[1], in Nebraska[2]. She has worked as a writer[3], novelist[4], journalist[5], children's writer[6], and prose writer[7].

Why It Matters

Works attributed to Rainbow Rowell include Eleanor & Park[29], a literary work[30] and Fangirl[31], a literary work[32].

FAQs

Where was Rainbow Rowell born?

Rainbow Rowell's place of birth was Nebraska[2].

What did Rainbow Rowell do for work?

Rainbow Rowell worked as a writer[3], novelist[4], journalist[5], children's writer[6], and prose writer[7].

Where did Rainbow Rowell go to school?

Rainbow Rowell was educated at University of Nebraska–Lincoln[13] and Omaha North High School[14].

Related Entities

Nebraska United States young adult literature

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  2. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [15] ↑ . BnF authorities. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [9] ↑ . LIBRIS. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [14] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [6] ↑ . LIBRIS. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [11] ↑ . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [12] ↑ . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [1] ↑ . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [18] ↑ . LIBRIS. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [23] ↑ . sfadb.com. Retrieved . sfadb.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [24] ↑ . BnF authorities. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  25. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [28] ↑ . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [30] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [32] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

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  1. 5h ago · Printstream · 2026-11-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Claims rich → —
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  2. 20d ago · A826 · 2026-10-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'arz', 'bg', 'ca', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fi', 'fr', 'hy', 'id', 'it',
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  3. 11w ago · Symac · 2026-08-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14750 → 36A6-C249-765D-E800-3668
    Ricochet author ID → rainbow-rowell
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  4. 21w ago · MariuszRokin · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    SVKKL authority ID → 0341509-Rowell-Rainbow
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ SVKKL authority ID: 0341509-Rowell-Rainbow, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259599|batch #259599]]"
  5. 24w ago · Epìdosis · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Occupation → writer, novelist, journalist +4
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/31724|batch #31724]]: import P21 and P106 from GND (18)"
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