# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-merrill
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:42:27.483Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-merrill"
name: "James Merrill"
slug: "james-merrill"
description: "James Ingram Merrill was an American poet. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1977 for Divine Comedies. His poetry falls into two distinct bodies of work: the polished and formalist lyric poetry of his early career, and the epic narrative of occult communication with spirits and angels, titled The Changing Light at Sandover, which dominated his later career. Although most of his published work was poetry, he also wrote essays, fiction, and plays."
tagline: "American poet (1926–1995)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_Merrill_(1973)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1926-03-03"
deathDate: "1995-02-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.78301416814459
  historical:           15.22452133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "James Merrill"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump