# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jill-paton-walsh
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:05:22.343Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jill-paton-walsh"
name: "Jill Paton Walsh"
slug: "jill-paton-walsh"
description: "Gillian Honorine Mary Herbert, Baroness Hemingford,, known professionally as Jill Paton Walsh, was an English novelist and children's writer. She may be known best for her Booker Prize-nominated novel Knowledge of Angels and for the Peter Wimsey–Harriet Vane mysteries that continued the work of Dorothy L. Sayers."
tagline: "Novelist and children's writer from England"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1937-04-29"
deathDate: "2020-10-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.15
  momentum:             4.54183266932271
  historical:           11.17689333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1160005/"
    handle:    "nm1160005"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.greenbay.co.uk/bio.html"
sources:
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    title: "جيل باتون والش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جيل باتون والش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jill Paton Walsh"
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    title: "Jill Paton Walsh"
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    title: "Jill Paton Walsh"
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    title: "Jill Paton Walsh"
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    title: "Jill Paton Walsh"
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    title: "Jill Paton Walsh"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1688997"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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