# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/arnold-bennett
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:34:17.333Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in 1867 in Hanley, in the Staffordshire Potteries, Bennett was steered toward law by his solicitor father but pivoted after clerking in London at twenty-one, editing a women's magazine before going full-time as an author in 1900. He moved to Paris in 1903, steeped himself in French literature, and married a Frenchwoman in 1907; the decade abroad loosened his crippling shyness. Back in England by 1912, he set much of his fiction in a fictionalized Potteries he called The Five Towns—realist novels like Anna of the Five Towns and The Old Wives' Tale that sold widely to ordinary readers. The accessibility that made him rich also made him a target: modernists scorned his popularity, and his reputation cratered after his death in 1931 from typhoid, contracted after drinking tap water in France. Late-century scholars revived him, recognizing novels like Clayhanger and Riceyman Steps as the major works they are.