# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-carey
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:19:26.582Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-carey"
name: "John Carey"
slug: "john-carey"
description: "John Carey was a British literary critic, and post-retirement (2002) emeritus Merton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford. He was a scholar on John Milton and he also published a number of books on various literary figures. He became known for his anti-elitist views on high culture, as expounded in several books such as The Intellectuals and the Masses and What Good Are the Arts? Carey twice chaired the Booker Prize committee, in 1982 and 2003, and chaired the judging panel for the first Man Booker International Prize in 2005."
tagline: "British literary critic"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Professor_John_Carey.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1934-04-05"
deathDate: "2025-12-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.36
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.711522666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.johncarey.org"
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carey_(Literaturhistoriker)"
    title: "John Carey (Literaturhistoriker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جون كاري (مدرس)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جون كارى (صحفى)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carey"
    title: "John Carey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carey_(critic)"
    title: "John Carey (critic)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carey_(cr%C3%ADtico)"
    title: "John Carey (crítico)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3809138"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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