# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-payne
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:16:21.772Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-payne"
name: "Robert Payne"
slug: "robert-payne"
description: "Pierre Stephen Robert Payne was an English-born author, known principally for works of biography and history, although he also wrote novels, poetry, magazine articles and many other works. After working in Singapore and China, he moved to the United States in 1946 and became a professor of English literature. From 1954 onwards he lived as a writer in New York."
tagline: "British lecturer, novelist, historian, poet and biographer (1911-1983)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1911-12-04"
deathDate: "1983-03-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.98
  momentum:             0.497737556561086
  historical:           7.891722666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.robertpayneauthor.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pierre_Stephen_Robert_Payne"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%AA_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86_(%D9%85%D8%A4%D9%84%D9%81)"
    title: "روبرت باين (مؤلف)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%AA_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86_(%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%B1%D8%AE_%D9%85%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%85%D9%84%D9%83%D9%87_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AA%D8%AD%D8%AF%D9%87_%D9%84%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B7%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A7_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%B8%D9%85%D9%89_%D9%88_%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%A7)"
    title: "روبرت باين (مؤرخ من المملكه المتحده لبريطانيا العظمى و ايرلاندا)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Payne"
    title: "Robert Payne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Payne"
    title: "Robert Payne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Payne_(author)"
    title: "Robert Payne (author)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Payne_(autor)"
    title: "Robert Payne (autor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%AA_%D9%BE%DB%8C%D9%86"
    title: "رابرت پین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BD%2C_%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%82"
    title: "Пейн, Роберт"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q353144"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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