# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lanford-wilson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:28:29.521Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lanford-wilson"
name: "Lanford Wilson"
slug: "lanford-wilson"
description: "Lanford Wilson was an American playwright. His work, as described by The New York Times, was \"earthy, realist, greatly admired [and] widely performed\". Wilson helped to advance the off-off-Broadway theater movement with his earliest plays, which were first produced at the Caffe Cino beginning in 1964. He was one of the first playwrights to move from off-off-Broadway to off-Broadway, then Broadway and beyond."
tagline: "American playwright (1937-2011)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lanford_Wilson_by_Frederick_Eberstadt.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1937-04-13"
deathDate: "2011-03-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.98538933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump