# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gordon-snell
# Generated: 2026-08-20T20:37:03.106Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gordon-snell"
name: "Gordon Snell"
slug: "gordon-snell"
description: "Gordon Thomas Frederick Snell was a British author of children's literature and scriptwriter. He was married to Irish author Maeve Binchy from 1977 until her death in 2012. He lived in the home that he shared with his late wife in Dalkey, outside of Dublin, Ireland."
tagline: "British broadcaster, screenwriter and author"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/78/Cropped_Photo_of_Gordon_Snell.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1932-10-01"
deathDate: "2026-04-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.18
  momentum:             1.325301204819277
  historical:           1.567173333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     9.999999999999998
  profileCompleteness:  64
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Snell"
    title: "Gordon Snell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5585841"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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