# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-sterling
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:55:54.811Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/george-sterling"
name: "George Sterling"
slug: "george-sterling"
description: "George Sterling was a prominent American poet, an acclaimed playwright, and a proponent of Bohemianism during the first quarter of the twentieth century. His work was admired by writers as diverse as Ambrose Bierce, Theodore Dreiser, Robinson Jeffers, Sinclair Lewis, Jack London, H. P. Lovecraft, H. L. Mencken, Upton Sinclair, and Clark Ashton Smith. Sterling worked mostly in California's San Francisco Bay Area and Carmel-by-the-Sea, but also spent time as a writer in New York City, Sag Harbor, Los Angeles, and Hollywood. He influenced many writers. In addition, Sterling played a major role in the growth of the California cities of Oakland, Piedmont, and Carmel-by-the-Sea."
tagline: "American poet and playwright (1869-1926)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/George_Sterling_by_Arnold_Genthe.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1869-12-01"
deathDate: "1926-11-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.87
  momentum:             0.4932094353109364
  historical:           7.052848
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "جورج ستيرلينج"
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    title: "George Sterling"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Sterling"
    title: "George Sterling"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Sterling"
    title: "George Sterling"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Sterling"
    title: "George Sterling"
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  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%B6"
    title: "Стерлинг, Джордж"
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    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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