{"name": "Arthur Edward Waite", "bio": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Arthur Edward Waite, commonly known as A. E. Waite, was an American-born British poet and scholarly mystic who wrote extensively on occult and esoteric matters, and was the co-creator of the Rider-Waite Tarot deck. As his biographer R. A. Gilbert described him, \"Waite's name has survived because he was the first to attempt a systematic study of the history of western occultism\u2014viewed as a spiritual tradition rather than as aspects of proto-science or as the pathology of religion.\"\r\n\r\n--Wikipedia"}, "personal_name": "Arthur Edward Waite", "death_date": "19 May 1942", "alternate_names": ["A.E. Waite", "Arthur E. Waite", "Arthur, E. Waite", "A.e Waite", "A., E. Waite", "A., E. WAITE", "A. E. Waite"], "photos": [7895751], "role": "tr", "birth_date": "2 October 1857", "type": {"key": "/type/author"}, "remote_ids": {"viaf": "95214216", "wikidata": "Q553124", "isni": "0000000110314538", "lc_naf": "n80005737", "librivox": "12473", "project_gutenberg": "9806", "opac_sbn": "UFIV117389"}, "key": "/authors/OL114249A", "latest_revision": 13, "revision": 13, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-06-12T17:25:27.678782"}}