# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/humphrey-carpenter
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:03:00.497Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/humphrey-carpenter"
name: "Humphrey Carpenter"
slug: "humphrey-carpenter"
description: "Humphrey William Bouverie Carpenter was an English biographer, writer, and radio broadcaster. He is known especially for his biographies of J. R. R. Tolkien and other members of the literary society the Inklings. He won a Mythopoeic Award for his book The Inklings in 1982."
tagline: "British writer and broadcaster (1946–2005)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5f/Humphrey_Carpenter.jpg/330px-Humphrey_Carpenter.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1946-04-29"
deathDate: "2005-01-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             1.019900497512438
  historical:           21.31451066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0139357"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump