# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/donald-hall
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:55:03.324Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/donald-hall"
name: "Donald Hall"
slug: "donald-hall"
description: "Donald Andrew Hall Jr. was an American poet, writer, editor, and literary critic. He was the author of more than 50 books across multiple genres including children's literature, biography, memoirs, essays, plays, sports journalism, and fifteen volumes of verse. He was a graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy, Harvard University, and Christ Church, Oxford. Early in his career, he became the first poetry editor of The Paris Review (1953–1961), the quarterly literary journal, and was noted for interviewing poets and other authors on their craft."
tagline: "American writer (1928–2018)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Donald_Hall.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1928-09-20"
deathDate: "2018-06-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.86
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.13405866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Donald Hall"
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    title: "Donald Hall"
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    title: "Donald Hall"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Hall"
    title: "Donald Hall"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Hall"
    title: "Donald Hall"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump