# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-mayne
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:17:09.407Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-mayne"
name: "William Mayne"
slug: "william-mayne"
description: "William James Carter Mayne was an English writer of children's fiction. The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature calls him one of the outstanding children's authors of the 20th century and The Times Literary Supplement reportedly called him \"the most original good writer for young people in our time\". In 2004, he was convicted of child sexual abuse."
tagline: "English writer of children's fiction (1928-2010)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1928-03-16"
deathDate: "2010-03-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.87
  momentum:             4.714795008912655
  historical:           8.547841333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1174532/"
    handle:    "nm1174532"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Mayne"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%85_%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "وليم ماين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%85_%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "وليم ماين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Mayne"
    title: "William Mayne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Mayne"
    title: "William Mayne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Mayne"
    title: "William Mayne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A2%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A1%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3"
    title: "ウィリアム・メイン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Mayne"
    title: "William Mayne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Mayne"
    title: "William Mayne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2579910"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2670755"
    title: "William Mayne"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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