# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/linda-pastan
# Generated: 2026-08-15T07:26:20.803Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/linda-pastan"
name: "Linda Pastan"
slug: "linda-pastan"
description: "Linda Pastan was a Jewish American poet. From 1991 to 1995 she was Poet Laureate of Maryland. She was known for her short poems that address topics of marriage, family, and grief. Her final collection of poetry was Almost an Elegy, published in 2022."
tagline: "American writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Linda_pastan_3869.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1932-05-27"
deathDate: "2023-01-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.26
  momentum:             0.3586497890295358
  historical:           6.817676000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Pastan"
    title: "Linda Pastan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Pastan"
    title: "Linda Pastan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Pastan"
    title: "Linda Pastan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Pastan"
    title: "Linda Pastan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%93%D7%94_%D7%A4%D7%A1%D7%98%D7%9F"
    title: "לינדה פסטן"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Pastan"
    title: "Linda Pastan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikiquote.org/wiki/Linda_Pastan"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2909266"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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