# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lucille-clifton
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:32:28.260Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lucille-clifton"
name: "Lucille Clifton"
slug: "lucille-clifton"
description: "Lucille Clifton was an American poet, writer, and educator from Buffalo, New York. From 1979 to 1985 she was Poet Laureate of Maryland. Clifton was a finalist twice for the Pulitzer Prize for poetry."
tagline: "American poet (1936-2010)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lucille_Clifton_reading_her_poem_'Homage_to_Hips'.png?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1936-06-27"
deathDate: "2010-02-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             7.741935483870966
  historical:           16.266312
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump