# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/karl-shapiro
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:48:11.290Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/karl-shapiro"
name: "Karl Shapiro"
slug: "karl-shapiro"
description: "Karl Jay Shapiro was an American poet. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1945 for his collection V-Letter and Other Poems. He was appointed the fifth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1946."
tagline: "American poet and essayist (1913-2000)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a6/Karl_Shapiro.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1913-11-10"
deathDate: "2000-05-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.73
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.95460933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84_%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%88_(%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%B1)"
    title: "كارل شابيرو (شاعر)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Karl Shapiro"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Shapiro"
    title: "Karl Shapiro"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Shapiro"
    title: "Karl Shapiro"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "קארל שפירו"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Shapiro"
    title: "Karl Shapiro"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%B9%BC_%EC%83%A4%ED%94%BC%EB%A1%9C"
    title: "칼 샤피로"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolus_Shapiro"
    title: "Carolus Shapiro"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Shapiro"
    title: "Karl Shapiro"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Shapiro"
    title: "Karl Shapiro"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8D%A1%E5%B0%94%C2%B7%E5%A4%8F%E7%9A%AE%E7%BD%97"
    title: "卡尔·夏皮罗"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2906282"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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