# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/judith-krug
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:43:54.386Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/judith-krug"
name: "Judith Krug"
slug: "judith-krug"
description: "Judith Fingeret Krug was an American librarian, freedom of speech proponent, and critic of censorship. Krug became director of the Office for Intellectual Freedom at the American Library Association in 1967. In 1969, she joined the Freedom to Read Foundation as its executive director. Krug co-founded Banned Books Week in 1982."
tagline: "American librarian and freedom of speech proponent (1940-2009)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/2009_October_4_Judith_Krug_tribute_01.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1940-03-15"
deathDate: "2009-04-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.47
  momentum:             8.333333333333334
  historical:           6.137257333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%AB_%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%BA"
    title: "جوديث كروغ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%AB_%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AC"
    title: "جوديث كروج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Krug"
    title: "Judith Krug"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%AF%DB%8C%D8%AA_%DA%A9%D8%B1%D9%88%DA%AF"
    title: "جودیت کروگ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Krug"
    title: "Judith Krug"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%DA%88%D8%AA%DA%BE_%DA%A9%D8%B1%D9%88%DA%AF"
    title: "جوڈتھ کروگ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6303513"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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