# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mervyn-peake
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:06:24.511Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mervyn-peake"
name: "Mervyn Peake"
slug: "mervyn-peake"
description: "Mervyn Laurence Peake was a British writer, artist, poet, and illustrator. He is best known for what are usually referred to as the Gormenghast books. The four works were part of what Peake conceived as a lengthy cycle, the completion of which was prevented by his death. They are sometimes compared to the work of his older contemporary J. R. R. Tolkien, but Peake's surreal fiction was influenced by his early love for Charles Dickens and Robert Louis Stevenson rather than Tolkien's studies of mythology and philology."
tagline: "English author and illustrator (1911–1968)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/13/Mervyn_Peake.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1911-07-09"
deathDate: "1968-11-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           55.77
  momentum:             3.006571741511499
  historical:           22.81168533333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0668846/"
    handle:    "nm0668846"
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    title: "Mervyn Peake"
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    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump