# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/irving-howe
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:13:57.034Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/irving-howe"
name: "Irving Howe"
slug: "irving-howe"
description: "Irving Howe was an American author, literary and social critic, and a key figure in the democratic socialist movement in the U.S. He co-founded and served as longtime editor of Dissent magazine. In 1976, he wrote the National Book Award-winning World of Our Fathers, a history of East European Jews who immigrated to America."
tagline: "American writer, literary and social critic and socialist activist (1920–1993)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Irving_Howe_(1968).png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1920-06-11"
deathDate: "1993-05-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             4.795918367346939
  historical:           10.78402133333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0397833/"
    handle:    "nm0397833"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "إرفينغ هاو"
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    title: "ارفينج هاو"
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    title: "ایروینق هاو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Irving Howe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Irving Howe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Irving Howe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Howe"
    title: "Irving Howe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Howe"
    title: "Irving Howe"
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    title: "Irving Howe"
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    title: "Хоу, Ирвинг"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Irving Howe"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump