# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-deverell
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:34:20.928Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-deverell"
name: "William Deverell"
slug: "william-deverell"
description: "William Herbert Deverell is a Canadian writer, criminal lawyer, and civil liberties activist. One of Canada's best-known novelists, his debut novel Needles, based on his legal experience, won the $50,000 Seal First Novel Award from McClelland & Stewart. He received the Hammett Prize in 1998 for Trial of Passion, which also won the 1998 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel; April Fool won the same award in 2003. Trial of Passion launched his long-running crime series about Arthur Beauchamp, a classically trained, self-doubting barrister who solves crimes in releases such as April Fool, Kill All the Judges, Snow Job, I'll See You in My Dreams, Sing a Worried Song, Whipped, and Stung."
tagline: "Canadian writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William-Deverell.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1937-03-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.79
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.474298666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/BillDeverell"
    handle:    "BillDeverell"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0222384/"
    handle:    "nm0222384"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.deverell.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Deverell"
    title: "William Deverell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%AF%D9%8A%DA%A4%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "ويليام ديڤيريل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8F%D0%BC_%D0%94%D0%B5%D0%B2%D1%8A%D1%80%D1%8A%D0%BB"
    title: "Уилям Девъръл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Deverell"
    title: "William Deverell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Deverell"
    title: "William Deverell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Deverell"
    title: "William Deverell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1312287"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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