# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/howard-spring
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:20:52.690Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/howard-spring"
name: "Howard Spring"
slug: "howard-spring"
description: "Howard Spring was a Welsh author and journalist. He began his writing career as a journalist but from 1934 produced a series of best-selling novels for adults and children. The most successful was Fame Is the Spur (1940), which was later adapted into a film starring Michael Redgrave, and later still a BBC TV series (1982) starring Tim Pigott-Smith and David Hayman."
tagline: "British writer (1889–1965)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/50/Writer_Howard_Spring.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1889-02-10"
deathDate: "1965-05-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.5
  momentum:             3.870967741935483
  historical:           5.755833333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Howard_Spring"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Spring"
    title: "Howard Spring"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Spring"
    title: "Howard Spring"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Spring"
    title: "Howard Spring"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Spring"
    title: "Howard Spring"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Spring"
    title: "Howard Spring"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Howard_Spring"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1631915"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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