# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nicholas-shakespeare
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:21:44.953Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nicholas-shakespeare"
name: "Nicholas Shakespeare"
slug: "nicholas-shakespeare"
description: "Nicholas William Richmond Shakespeare FRSL is a British novelist, biographer, broadcaster, and journalist. He was described by the Wall Street Journal as \"one of the best English novelists of our time\". He has written biographies of Bruce Chatwin, Ian Fleming, and his aunt in Priscilla: The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France. Shakespeare is also known for his charity work."
tagline: "Novelist and journalist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Nicholas_Shakespeare.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1957-03-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "dolphinsands"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump