# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/eli-siegel
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:29:16.687Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/eli-siegel"
name: "Eli Siegel"
slug: "eli-siegel"
description: "Eli Siegel was a poet, writer, critic, educator, and philosopher. He founded Aesthetic Realism, a philosophical movement based in New York City. An idea central to Aesthetic Realism—that every person, place or thing in reality has something in common with all other things—was expressed in the title poem of his first volume, Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana: Poems. His second volume was Hail, American Development."
tagline: "Latvian-American poet, philosopher (1902-1978)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Eli_Siegel_by_Louis_Dienes.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1902-08-16"
deathDate: "1978-11-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.25
  momentum:             7.228564853263425
  historical:           4.437332
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A5%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%8A_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%BA%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "إيلاي سيغيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ايلاى سيجيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli_Siegel"
    title: "Eli Siegel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Eli_Siegel"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://sl.wikiquote.org/wiki/Eli_Siegel"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5360316"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump