# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/a-n-wilson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:15:01.037Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/a-n-wilson"
name: "A. N. Wilson"
slug: "a-n-wilson"
description: "Andrew Norman Wilson is an English writer and newspaper columnist known for his critical biographies, novels and works of popular history. He has written more than 30 books of non-fiction and more than 20 works of fiction. He is an occasional columnist for the Daily Mail, and a former columnist and literary editor for the London Evening Standard. He has been an occasional contributor to The Times Literary Supplement, New Statesman, The Spectator and The Observer."
tagline: "British poet, biographer, critic, journalist writer and newspaper columnist (1950-)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/AN_Wilson_at_the_Chiswick_Book_Festival._(53174675304)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1950-10-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.14
  momentum:             4.811625403659849
  historical:           5.644326666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Wilson_(Schriftsteller)"
    title: "Andrew Wilson (Schriftsteller)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3._%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "أ. ويلسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7._%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "ا. ويلسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A._N._Wilson"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._N._Wilson"
    title: "A. N. Wilson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._N._Wilson"
    title: "A. N. Wilson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4648203"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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