# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/francis-king
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:39:55.528Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/francis-king"
name: "Francis King"
slug: "francis-king"
description: "Francis Henry King was a British novelist and short-story writer. He worked for the British Council for 15 years, with positions in Europe and Japan. For 25 years, he was a chief book reviewer for the Sunday Telegraph, and for 10 years its theatre critic."
tagline: "British novelist, writer and poet (1923-2011)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bb/Francis_King.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1923-03-04"
deathDate: "2011-07-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.78
  momentum:             23.5
  historical:           6.806624
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3598147/"
    handle:    "nm3598147"
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_King"
    title: "Francis King"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AC"
    title: "فرنسيس كينج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_King"
    title: "Francis King"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_King"
    title: "Francis King"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_King_(novelist)"
    title: "Francis King (novelist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_King"
    title: "Francis King"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_King"
    title: "Francis King"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q921262"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1744290"
    title: "Francis King"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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