# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/marilyn-nelson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:11:46.831Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/marilyn-nelson"
name: "Marilyn Nelson"
slug: "marilyn-nelson"
description: "Marilyn Nelson is an American poet, translator, biographer, and children's book author. She is a professor emeritus at the University of Connecticut, and the former Poet Laureate of Connecticut. She is a winner of the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s Literature, and the Frost Medal. From 1978 to 1994, she published under the name Marilyn Nelson Waniek. She is the author or translator of more than twenty books and five chapbooks of poetry for adults and children. While most of her work deals with historical subjects, in 2014 she published a memoir, named one of NPR's Best Books of 2014, entitled How I Discovered Poetry."
tagline: "American writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Marilyn_Nelson_1211962.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1946-04-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.18
  momentum:             15
  historical:           7.675234666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://marilyn-nelson.com/"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "مارلين نيلسون"
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    title: "مارلين نيلسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_Waniek"
    title: "Marilyn Waniek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_Nelson"
    title: "Marilyn Nelson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_Nelson"
    title: "Marilyn Nelson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_Nelson"
    title: "Marilyn Nelson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D9%86_%D9%86%DB%8C%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86"
    title: "مارلن نیلسن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6763605"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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