# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/st-john-greer-ervine
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:52:52.025Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/st-john-greer-ervine"
name: "St. John Greer Ervine"
slug: "st-john-greer-ervine"
description: "St John Greer Ervine was an Irish biographer, novelist, critic, dramatist, and theatre manager. He was the most prominent Ulster writer of the early twentieth century and a major Irish dramatist whose work influenced the plays of W. B. Yeats and Sean O'Casey. The Wayward Man was among the first novels to explore the character, and conflicts, of Belfast."
tagline: "Irish writer, critic and dramatist (1883–1971)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/St._John_Ervine_by_Underwood_%26_Underwood.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1883-12-28"
deathDate: "1971-01-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.49
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.80774
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0259972/"
    handle:    "nm0259972"
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA._%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%AC%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B1_%D8%A7%D8%B1%DA%A4%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "سانت. جون جرير ارڤين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._John_Ervine"
    title: "St. John Ervine"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._John_Greer_Ervine"
    title: "St. John Greer Ervine"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._John_Greer_Ervine"
    title: "St. John Greer Ervine"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%BB%E3%83%B3%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B0%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A3%E3%83%B3"
    title: "セント・ジョン・グリア・アーヴィン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2319515"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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