# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/heathcote-williams
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:31:16.129Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/heathcote-williams"
name: "Heathcote Williams"
slug: "heathcote-williams"
description: "John Henley Heathcote-Williams, known as Heathcote Williams, was an English poet, actor, political activist and dramatist. He wrote a number of book-length polemical poems including Autogeddon, Falling for a Dolphin and Whale Nation, which in 1988 was described by Philip Hoare as \"the most powerful argument for the newly instigated worldwide ban on whaling.\" Williams invented his idiosyncratic \"documentary/investigative poetry\" style which he put to good purpose bringing a diverse range of environmental and political matters to public attention. His last published work, American Porn was a critique of the American political establishment and the election of President Donald Trump; its publication date was the day of Trump's inauguration. In June 2015 he published a book-length investigative poem about the \"Muslim Gandhi\", Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, Badshah Khan."
tagline: "English poet, actor and dramatist (1941-2017)"
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gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1941-11-15"
deathDate: "2017-07-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump