# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ben-lerner
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:36:55.162Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ben-lerner"
name: "Ben Lerner"
slug: "ben-lerner"
description: "Benjamin S. Lerner is an American poet, novelist, essayist, and critic. The recipient of fellowships from the Fulbright, Guggenheim, and MacArthur Foundations, Lerner's work has been a finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry, the National Book Critics Circle Award in fiction, and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Lerner teaches at Brooklyn College, where he was named a Distinguished Professor of English in 2016."
tagline: "American writer and poet"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ben-lerner1_(cropped).JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1979-02-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           14.09968533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Ben Lerner"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump