# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-lamming
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:44:17.923Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/george-lamming"
name: "George Lamming"
slug: "george-lamming"
description: "George William Lamming OCC was a Barbadian novelist, essayist, and poet. He first won critical acclaim for In the Castle of My Skin, his 1953 debut novel. He also held academic posts, including as a distinguished visiting professor at Duke University and a visiting professor in the Africana Studies Department of Brown University, and lectured extensively worldwide."
tagline: "Barbadian novelist, essayist and poet (1927–2022)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/George_Lamming.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1927-06-08"
deathDate: "2022-06-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.62
  momentum:             4.386737352861892
  historical:           7.032184
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Lamming"
    title: "George Lamming"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Lamming"
    title: "George Lamming"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Lamming"
    title: "George Lamming"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Lamming"
    title: "George Lamming"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Lamming"
    title: "George Lamming"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%BC%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%B6"
    title: "Лемминг, Джордж"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Lamming"
    title: "George Lamming"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1340511"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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