# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-west-q3372424
# Generated: 2026-08-15T04:18:03.620Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-west-q3372424"
name: "Paul West"
slug: "paul-west-q3372424"
description: "Paul Noden West was a British-born American novelist, poet, and essayist. He was born in Eckington, Derbyshire in England to Alfred and Mildred (Noden) West. Before his death, he resided in Ithaca, New York, with his wife Diane Ackerman, a writer, poet, and naturalist. West is the author of more than 50 books."
tagline: "US/British novelist (1930–2015)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Paul_West_Novelist_2010.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1930-02-23"
deathDate: "2015-10-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.91
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.481858666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Paul West (writer, born 1930)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%AA_(%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%B1)"
    title: "باول ويست (شاعر)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "پائول وست"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Paul_West_(poet)"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D9%84_%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%AA"
    title: "پل وست"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_West_(%C3%A9crivain)"
    title: "Paul West (écrivain)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3372424"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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