# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-ciardi
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:13:45.042Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-ciardi"
name: "John Ciardi"
slug: "john-ciardi"
description: "John Anthony Ciardi was an American poet, translator, and etymologist. While primarily known as a poet and translator of Dante's Divine Comedy, he also wrote several volumes of children's poetry, pursued etymology, contributed to the Saturday Review as a columnist and long-time poetry editor, directed the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in Vermont, and recorded commentaries for National Public Radio."
tagline: "American poet, professor, translator (1916–1986)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Ciardi_1961_CBS_publicity.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1916-06-24"
deathDate: "1986-03-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.51
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.57376133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0161890/"
    handle:    "nm0161890"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "John Ciardi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جون تشاردي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جون سياردى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ciardi"
    title: "John Ciardi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ciardi"
    title: "John Ciardi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ciardi"
    title: "John Ciardi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ciardi"
    title: "John Ciardi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ciardi"
    title: "John Ciardi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A7%D0%B8%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%B8%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Чиарди, Джон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bs.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Ciardi"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Ciardi"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://tr.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Ciardi"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q947519"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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