# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/samuel-youd
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:24:57.807Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/samuel-youd"
name: "Samuel Youd"
slug: "samuel-youd"
description: "Sam Youd was a British writer best known for science fiction written under the name of John Christopher, including the novels The Death of Grass, The Possessors, and the young-adult novel series The Tripods. He won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize in 1971 and the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 1976."
tagline: "English writer (1922–2012)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7d/John_Christopher.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1922-04-16"
deathDate: "2012-02-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump