# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walter-allen
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:29:38.031Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walter-allen"
name: "Walter Allen"
slug: "walter-allen"
description: "Walter Ernest Allen was an English literary critic and novelist and one of the Birmingham Group of authors. He is best known for his classic study The English Novel: a Short Critical History (1951)."
tagline: "English literary critic and novelist (1911–1995)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7a/Walter_Ernest_Allen.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1911-02-23"
deathDate: "1995-02-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.44
  momentum:             6.923076923076924
  historical:           6.542225333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Walter Allen"
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  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Ernest_Allen"
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    title: "Walter Allen"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump