# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/laura-spinney
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:21:03.853Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/laura-spinney"
name: "Laura Spinney"
slug: "laura-spinney"
description: "Laura Spinney is a British science journalist, novelist, and non-fiction writer whose 2017 book Pale Rider is an account of the 1918 influenza pandemic."
tagline: "British science writer (1971-)"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1971-08-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.76
  momentum:             5.617910953106482
  historical:           5.320342666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Spinney"
    title: "Laura Spinney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A7_%D8%B3%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%89"
    title: "لورا سبينى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Spinney"
    title: "Laura Spinney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Laura_Spinney"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Spinney"
    title: "Laura Spinney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Laura_Spinney"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30152437"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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