# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/j-r-ackerley
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:49:10.148Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/j-r-ackerley"
name: "J. R. Ackerley"
slug: "j-r-ackerley"
description: "Joe Randolph Ackerley was a British writer and editor. Starting with the BBC the year after its founding in 1927, he was promoted to literary editor of The Listener, its weekly magazine, where he served for more than two decades. He published many emerging poets and writers who became influential in Great Britain. He was openly homosexual, a rarity in his time when homosexual activity was forbidden by law and socially ostracised."
tagline: "English writer and editor (1896-1967)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/J.R._Ackerley_and_his_dog_Queenie.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1896-11-04"
deathDate: "1967-06-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.92
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.638664
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0009948/"
    handle:    "nm0009948"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.jrackerley.com/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump