{"name": "Howard Spring", "bio": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Howard Spring was a Welsh author and journalist who wrote in English. He began his writing career as a journalist but from 1934 produced a series of best-selling novels for adults and children. The most successful was Fame Is the Spur (1940), which was later adapted into a film starring Michael Redgrave and, later still a BBC TV series (1982) starring Tim Pigott-Smith and David Hayman."}, "personal_name": "Howard Spring", "remote_ids": {"viaf": "22183085", "wikidata": "Q1631915", "isni": "0000000110444009", "lc_naf": "n50035136", "opac_sbn": "RAVV037943"}, "death_date": "3 May 1965", "birth_date": "10 February 1889", "type": {"key": "/type/author"}, "photos": [14346720], "key": "/authors/OL152593A", "latest_revision": 9, "revision": 9, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-10-30T18:04:47.124908"}}