# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/louise-doughty
# Generated: 2026-08-15T11:58:30.208Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/louise-doughty"
name: "Louise Doughty"
slug: "louise-doughty"
description: "Louise Doughty is an English novelist and screenwriter. She is best known for her bestselling novels, including Apple Tree Yard. She has also worked as a cultural critic for newspapers and magazines. Her weekly column for The Daily Telegraph was published as A Novel in a Year in 2007. Doughty was the presenter of the BBC Radio 4 programme A Good Read in 1998 to 2001."
tagline: "English novelist, playwright and journalist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/LouiseDoughty2008.png?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1963-09-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.79
  momentum:             7.268673355629878
  historical:           10.58909733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/DoughtyLouise"
    handle:    "DoughtyLouise"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8525861/"
    handle:    "nm8525861"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://louisedoughty.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "لويز داوتى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Louise Doughty"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Doughty"
    title: "Louise Doughty"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Doughty"
    title: "Louise Doughty"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Doughty"
    title: "Louise Doughty"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Doughty"
    title: "Louise Doughty"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Doughty"
    title: "Louise Doughty"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Луси Даути"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Louise Doughty"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Louise Doughty"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump