# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alex-wheatle
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:33:10.725Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alex-wheatle"
name: "Alex Wheatle"
slug: "alex-wheatle"
description: "Alex Alphonso Wheatle MBE was a British novelist, who had been brought up in a children's care home from the age of two, his education subsequently suffering from numerous suspensions and expulsions from school. His connection with the written word was bolstered during a prison sentence he was serving after the 1981 Brixton riot in London, when his older Rastafarian cellmate introduced him to the writings of many impactful writers, as well as engaging him in discussions about African history."
tagline: "British writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/1981_Brixton_Riots.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1963-01-03"
deathDate: "2025-03-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.32
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.035604
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm11155284/"
    handle:    "nm11155284"
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alex_Wheatle"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%B3_%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%84"
    title: "اليكس ويتل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Wheatle"
    title: "Alex Wheatle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Wheatle"
    title: "Alex Wheatle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Wheatle"
    title: "Alex Wheatle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Wheatle"
    title: "Alex Wheatle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Wheatle"
    title: "Alex Wheatle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4717976"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3408384"
    title: "Alex Wheatle"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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