# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alfred-mendes
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:39:07.040Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alfred-mendes"
name: "Alfred Mendes"
slug: "alfred-mendes"
description: "Alfred Hubert Mendes MM was a Trinidadian novelist and short-story writer. He was a leading member of the 1930s \"Beacon group\" of writers in Trinidad and Tobago which included Albert Gomes, C. L. R. James, and Ralph de Boissière. Mendes is best known as the author of two novels – Pitch Lake (1934) and Black Fauns (1935) – and for his short stories written during the 1920s and 1930s. He was \"one of the first West Indian writers to set the pattern of emigration in the face of the lack of publishing houses and the small reading public in the West Indies.\" Mendes' experiences in World War I were the inspiration for the 2019 film 1917, written and directed by his grandson Sam Mendes."
tagline: "Trinidad and Tobago writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Alfred_Mendes%2C_circa._1916.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1897-11-18"
deathDate: "1991"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.560061333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Alfred Hubert Mendes"
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  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%B2"
    title: "الفريد مينديز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Mendes"
    title: "Alfred Mendes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "آلفرد مندز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Mendes"
    title: "Alfred Mendes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%9C%D7%A4%D7%A8%D7%93_%D7%9E%D7%A0%D7%93%D7%A1"
    title: "אלפרד מנדס"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mwl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Hubert_Mendes"
    title: "Alfred Hubert Mendes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4723155"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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