# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/candace-allen
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:27:21.160Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/candace-allen"
name: "Candace Allen"
slug: "candace-allen"
description: "Candace Allen is an American novelist, political activist, cultural critic and screenwriter, who is based in London. She was the first African-American woman to be a member of the Directors Guild of America. She is the niece of actress and drama coach Billie Allen, and the former wife of British conductor Sir Simon Rattle. As a writer, Allen has published work including the novel Valaida and the non-fiction book Soul Music: The Pulse of Race and Music, and she is a contributor to The Guardian and other newspapers."
tagline: "American novelist and screenwriter"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1950"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.5
  momentum:             15
  historical:           4.826604
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%B3_%D8%A3%D9%84%D9%86"
    title: "كانداس ألن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%B3_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%86"
    title: "كانداس الن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candace_Allen"
    title: "Candace Allen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candace_Allen_(author)"
    title: "Candace Allen (author)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%96%D1%81_%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BD"
    title: "Кендіс Аллен"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1032915"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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