# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leon-garfield
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:52:13.130Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leon-garfield"
name: "Leon Garfield"
slug: "leon-garfield"
description: "Leon Garfield FRSL was a British author. He is best known for children's historical novels, though he also wrote for adults. He wrote more than thirty books and scripted Shakespeare: The Animated Tales for television. His retellings of Shakespeare for young readers were published as Shakespeare Stories. Garfield won the inaugural Guardian Prize for Devil-in-the-Fog, the Carnegie Medal for The God Beneath the Sea, a retelling of Greek mythology cowritten with Edward Blishen and the Whitbread Award for John Diamond. He wrote an ending for The Mystery of Edwin Drood, left unfinished at the death of Charles Dickens."
tagline: "English children's writer (1921-1996)"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1921-07-14"
deathDate: "1996-06-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  historical:           12.49575466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0307283"
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    url:       "http://leongarfield.com"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump