# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dwight-macdonald
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:41:11.565Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dwight-macdonald"
name: "Dwight Macdonald"
slug: "dwight-macdonald"
description: "Dwight Macdonald was an American writer, critic, philosopher, and activist. Macdonald was a member of the New York Intellectuals and editor of their leftist magazine Partisan Review for six years. He also contributed to other New York publications including Time, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, and Politics, a journal which he founded in 1944."
tagline: "American writer, editor, film critic, social critic, philosopher and political radical (1906-1982)"
gender: "male"
country:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1906-03-24"
deathDate: "1982-12-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump