{"alternate_names": ["Foxe, John 1516-1587.", "John Fox", "Foxe John 1516-1587", "John John Foxe", "John 1516-1587 Foxe", "Rev. John Fox"], "source_records": ["amazon:0353251798", "bwb:9798784598479", "bwb:9781016440578", "ia:foxsbookofmartyr0000revj"], "bio": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "John Foxe (1516/17 \u2013 18 April 1587) was an English historian and martyrologist, the author of Actes and Monuments (popularly known as Foxe's Book of Martyrs), an account of Christian martyrs throughout Western history, but emphasizing the sufferings of English Protestants and proto-Protestants from the 14th century through the reign of Mary I. Widely owned and read by English Puritans, the book helped to mould British popular opinion about the Catholic Church for several centuries"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author"}, "death_date": "1587", "name": "John Foxe", "title": "1516-1587.", "remote_ids": {"viaf": "32005978", "wikidata": "Q380961", "isni": "000000008076828X", "lc_naf": "n50035139", "librivox": "488", "project_gutenberg": "25311", "opac_sbn": "BVEV014139", "goodreads": "164796"}, "personal_name": "John Foxe", "photos": [8347600], "birth_date": "1516", "key": "/authors/OL301192A", "latest_revision": 11, "revision": 11, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-03-01T19:12:28.352041"}}