# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/basil-copper
# Generated: 2026-08-12T16:35:46.519Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/basil-copper"
name: "Basil Copper"
slug: "basil-copper"
description: "Basil Frederick Albert Copper was an English writer and former journalist and newspaper editor. He became a full-time writer in 1970. In addition to horror and detective fiction, Copper was perhaps best known for his series of Solar Pons stories continuing the character created as a tribute to Sherlock Holmes by August Derleth."
tagline: "British writer and journalist (1924-2013)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1924-02-05"
deathDate: "2013-04-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.35
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.675522666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1263297/"
    handle:    "nm1263297"
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_Copper"
    title: "Basil Copper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%84_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%BE%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "باسيل كوپير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_Copper"
    title: "Basil Copper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%B7%D1%96%D0%BB_%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%BF%D0%B5%D1%80"
    title: "Безіл Коппер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%BF%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%91%D1%8D%D0%B7%D0%B8%D0%BB"
    title: "Коппер, Бэзил"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_Copper"
    title: "Basil Copper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2886798"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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