# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/piers-paul-read
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:15:57.794Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/piers-paul-read"
name: "Piers Paul Read"
slug: "piers-paul-read"
description: "Piers Paul Read FRSL is a British novelist, historian and biographer. He was first noted in 1974 for a book of reportage, Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors, later adapted as a feature film and a documentary. Read was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, where he studied history."
tagline: "British writer (born 1941)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1941-03-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.78
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.883016
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0713872/"
    handle:    "nm0713872"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.pierspaulread.co.uk"
sources:
  - url: "https://cs.wikiquote.org/wiki/Piers_Paul_Read"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%B3_%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AF"
    title: "بيرس بول ريد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B8%D1%8A%D1%80%D1%81_%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BB_%D0%A0%D0%B8%D0%B9%D0%B4"
    title: "Пиърс Пол Рийд"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piers_Paul_Read"
    title: "Piers Paul Read"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piers_Paul_Read"
    title: "Piers Paul Read"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piers_Paul_Read"
    title: "Piers Paul Read"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piers_Paul_Read"
    title: "Piers Paul Read"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piers_Paul_Read"
    title: "Piers Paul Read"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://kw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piers_Paul_Read"
    title: "Piers Paul Read"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piers_Paul_Read"
    title: "Piers Paul Read"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piers_Paul_Read"
    title: "Piers Paul Read"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%B8%D0%B4%2C_%D0%9F%D0%B8%D1%80%D1%81_%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BB"
    title: "Рид, Пирс Пол"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piers_Paul_Read"
    title: "Piers Paul Read"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q668090"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/52417"
    title: "Piers Paul Read"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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