# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-edmund-barrett
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:04:38.427Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-edmund-barrett"
name: "William Edmund Barrett"
slug: "william-edmund-barrett"
description: "William Edmund Barrett was an American writer, best known for the 1962 novella The Lilies of the Field."
tagline: "American writer (1900–1986)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1900-11-16"
deathDate: "1986-09-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.76
  momentum:             7.448251407295776
  historical:           6.81224
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0057315/"
    handle:    "nm0057315"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Edmund_Barrett"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%85_%D8%A5%D8%AF%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AF_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA"
    title: "وليم إدموند باريت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%85_%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AF_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA"
    title: "وليم ادموند باريت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_E._Barrett"
    title: "William E. Barrett"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Edmund_Barrett"
    title: "William Edmund Barrett"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Edmund_Barrett"
    title: "William Edmund Barrett"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_E._Barrett"
    title: "William E. Barrett"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2578525"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1246619"
    title: "William Edmund Barrett"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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