# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alfred-kazin
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:30:15.685Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alfred-kazin"
name: "Alfred Kazin"
slug: "alfred-kazin"
description: "Alfred Kazin was an American writer and literary critic. His literary reviews appeared in The New York Times, the New York Herald-Tribune, The New Republic and The New Yorker. He wrote often about the immigrant experience in early twentieth-century America. His trilogy of memoirs, A Walker in the City (1951), Starting Out in the Thirties (1965) and New York Jew (1978), were all finalists for the National Book Award for Nonfiction."
tagline: "American writer (1915–1998)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Alfred_Kazin_1973.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1915-06-05"
deathDate: "1998-06-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.23
  momentum:             2.182835820895522
  historical:           10.11368266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0443680/"
    handle:    "nm0443680"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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    title: "Alfred Kazin"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Kazin"
    title: "Alfred Kazin"
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    title: "אלפרד קייזין"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Alfred Kazin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "アルフレッド・ケイジン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Kazin"
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  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%88_%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B2%DB%8C%D9%86"
    title: "الفریڈ کازین"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump