# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/herbert-huncke
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:54:38.302Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/herbert-huncke"
name: "Herbert Huncke"
slug: "herbert-huncke"
description: "Herbert Edwin Huncke was an American writer and poet, and an active participant in a number of emerging cultural, social and aesthetic movements of the 20th century in America. He was a member of the Beat Generation and is reputed to have coined the term."
tagline: "American writer and poet (1915–1996)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e5/Herbert_Huncke.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1915-01-09"
deathDate: "1996-08-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.04
  momentum:             0.1435602953240361
  historical:           12.15569466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0402121/"
    handle:    "nm0402121"
sources:
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    title: "Herbert Huncke"
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    title: "Herbert Huncke"
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    title: "Herbert Huncke"
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  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Huncke"
    title: "Herbert Huncke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Huncke"
    title: "Herbert Huncke"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Huncke"
    title: "Herbert Huncke"
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    title: "Հերբերտ Հանկե"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Herbert Huncke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbertus_Eduinus_Huncke"
    title: "Herbertus Eduinus Huncke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Huncke"
    title: "Herbert Huncke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump