# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-hampson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:34:13.496Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-hampson"
name: "John Hampson"
slug: "john-hampson"
description: "John Frederick Norman Hampson Simpson was an English novelist writing as John Hampson. Best known for his 1931 novel Saturday Night at the Greyhound, he was a member of a Birmingham Group of working-class authors that included Walter Allen, Leslie Halward, Walter Brierley and Peter Chamberlain."
tagline: "English novelist"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e2/John_Hampson_by_Howard_Coster.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1901-03-26"
deathDate: "1955-12-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.51
  momentum:             0
  historical:           1.551837333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     9.999999999999998
  profileCompleteness:  64
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hampson_(novelist)"
    title: "John Hampson (novelist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6237529"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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