# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/coleman-barks
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:50:41.532Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/coleman-barks"
name: "Coleman Barks"
slug: "coleman-barks"
description: "Coleman Bryan Barks was an American poet and literature faculty member at the University of Georgia. Although he neither spoke nor read Persian, he was a popular interpreter of Rumi, rewriting the poems based on other English translations."
tagline: "American poet"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Coleman_Barks_2004.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1937-04-23"
deathDate: "2026-02-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             8.064516129032256
  historical:           10.58114133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "http://www.colemanbarks.com/"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Coleman Barks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Coleman Barks"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump