Answer:
Amos was a prophet and writer of the book of Amos in the Bible, who lived in the ninth century BCE and prophesied sometime between 829 to about 804 BCE(Amos 7:14). After the split in the 12 tribes of Israel, (2 tribes continued their worship in Jerusalem, 10 tribes set up their own in Samaria),God called Amos to be a prophet to the idolatrous 10 tribe kingdom. (Amos 7:15).
He was from the town of Tekoa, south of Jerusalem, where he raised sheep(Am 1:1) and worked as a 'nipper of sycamore figs'(a menial task which sped up the ripening and increased the sweetness and size of the figs).