# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/floyd-dell
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:35:40.189Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/floyd-dell"
name: "Floyd Dell"
slug: "floyd-dell"
description: "Floyd James Dell was an American newspaper and magazine editor, literary critic, novelist, playwright, and poet. Dell has been called \"one of the most flamboyant, versatile and influential American Men of Letters of the first third of the 20th Century.\" In Chicago, he was editor of the nationally syndicated Friday Literary Review. As editor and critic, Dell's influence is seen in the work of many major American writers from the first half of the 20th century. A lifelong poet, he was also a best-selling author, as well as a playwright whose hit Broadway comedy, Little Accident (1928), was made into a Hollywood movie."
tagline: "Novelist, poet, playwright, critic, editor (1887–1969)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/New_York_Courthouse%2C_May_1918_-_Eastman%2C_Young%2C_Eastman%2C_Hillquit%2C_Rogers%2C_Dell.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1887-06-28"
deathDate: "1969-07-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.85
  momentum:             0.3448275862068966
  historical:           7.879698666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Floyd_Dell"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%84%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "فلويد ديل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%84%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "فلويد ديل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floyd_Dell"
    title: "Floyd Dell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floyd_Dell"
    title: "Floyd Dell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floyd_Dell"
    title: "Floyd Dell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floyd_Dell"
    title: "Floyd Dell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floyd_Dell"
    title: "Floyd Dell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%DB%8C%DA%88_%DA%88%DB%8C%D9%84"
    title: "فلائیڈ ڈیل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q679659"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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