# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-tate
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:16:23.451Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-tate"
name: "James Tate"
slug: "james-tate"
description: "James Vincent Tate was an American poet. His work earned him the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. He was a professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters."
tagline: "American poet (1943–2015)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James-tate-and-gordon-cairnie-by-elsa-dorfman.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1943-12-08"
deathDate: "2015-07-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.12
  momentum:             1.944444444444444
  historical:           11.437656
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.jamestate.net/"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/1752822"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3_%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%AA"
    title: "جيمس تيت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3_%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%AA"
    title: "جيمس تيت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Tate_(Dichter)"
    title: "James Tate (Dichter)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Tate_(writer)"
    title: "James Tate (writer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Tate"
    title: "James Tate"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DB%8C%D9%85%D8%B2_%D8%AA%DB%8C%D8%AA_(%D9%86%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%87)"
    title: "جیمز تیت (نویسنده)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Tate"
    title: "James Tate"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Tate"
    title: "James Tate"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Tate"
    title: "James Tate"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Tate_(writer)"
    title: "James Tate (writer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Tate_(mwandishi)"
    title: "James Tate (mwandishi)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_Tate"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/70b61628-da69-4064-b37a-e3836fbeb52d"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q531155"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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