# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/catherine-aird
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:22:25.206Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/catherine-aird"
name: "Catherine Aird"
slug: "catherine-aird"
description: "Kinn Hamilton McIntosh, known professionally as Catherine Aird, was an English novelist. She was the author of more than twenty crime fiction novels and several collections of short stories. Her witty, literate, and deftly plotted novels straddle the \"cozy\", \"traditional\" and \"police procedural\" genres and are somewhat similar in flavour to those of Martha Grimes, Caroline Graham, M. C. Beaton, Margaret Yorke, and Pauline Bell. Aird was inducted into the prestigious Detection Club in 1981, and is a recipient of the 2015 Cartier Diamond Dagger award."
tagline: "Novelist"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1930-06-20"
deathDate: "2024-12-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.87
  momentum:             1.905829596412556
  historical:           7.485782666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0014770/"
    handle:    "nm0014770"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.catherineaird.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "كاثرين ايرد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Catherine Aird"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Aird"
    title: "Catherine Aird"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Aird"
    title: "Catherine Aird"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Aird"
    title: "Catherine Aird"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Aird"
    title: "Catherine Aird"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Aird"
    title: "Catherine Aird"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5052524"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1665768"
    title: "Catherine Aird"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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