# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-clellon-holmes
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:02:31.990Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-clellon-holmes"
name: "John Clellon Holmes"
slug: "john-clellon-holmes"
description: "John Clellon Holmes was an American author, poet and professor, best known for his 1952 novel Go. Considered the first \"Beat\" novel, Go depicted events in his life with his friends Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady and Allen Ginsberg. He was often referred to as the \"quiet Beat\" and was one of Kerouac's closest friends. Holmes also wrote what is considered the definitive jazz novel of the Beat Generation, The Horn."
tagline: "American Beat Generation writer, novelist (1926–1988)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e0/John_Clellon_Holmes.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1926-03-12"
deathDate: "1988-03-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump