# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/valerie-mendes
# Generated: 2026-08-15T07:19:43.293Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/valerie-mendes"
name: "Valerie Mendes"
slug: "valerie-mendes"
description: "Valerie Helene Mendes is an English novelist and poet. Mendes is best known for her teenage fiction novels, Girl in the Attic, Coming of Age, Lost and Found and The Drowning, and for her historical novels for adults: Larkswood, Daddy’s Girl and Beatrice and Alexander. In 2021, Mendes published Not Only But Also: A Memoir under her own imprint VMBooks, and in 2022, The Gathering: Collected Poems."
tagline: "English novelist"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1939"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.33
  momentum:             2.5428027901078
  historical:           3.337874666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     20
  profileCompleteness:  53
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A_%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%B2"
    title: "فاليري مينديز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Mendes"
    title: "Valerie Mendes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Mendes"
    title: "Valerie Mendes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16745412"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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