# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jean-rhys
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:12:19.703Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jean-rhys"
name: "Jean Rhys"
slug: "jean-rhys"
description: "Jean Rhys was a British Creole novelist who was born and grew up in the Caribbean island of Dominica. From the age of 16, she resided mainly in England, where she was sent for her education. She is best known for her final novel, Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), written as a prequel to Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre."
tagline: "British novelist (1890–1979)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jean_Rhys_circa_1921.webp?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1890-08-24"
deathDate: "1979-05-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           55.15
  momentum:             0.2733916809528106
  historical:           24.009896
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump