# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/josephine-tey
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:59:02.326Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/josephine-tey"
name: "Josephine Tey"
slug: "josephine-tey"
description: "Elizabeth MacKintosh, known by the pen name Josephine Tey, was a Scottish author. She is known for her Inspector Alan Grant series, which started with The Man in the Queue (1929). Her 1951 novel The Daughter of Time, from the same series, a detective work investigating the death of the Princes in the Tower, was chosen by the Crime Writers' Association in 1990 as the greatest crime novel of all time. Her first play Richard of Bordeaux, written under another pseudonym, Gordon Daviot, starred John Gielgud in its successful West End run."
tagline: "Scottish author (1896–1952)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/84/Josephine_Tey_portrait.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1896-07-25"
deathDate: "1952-02-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump