# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/may-sarton
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:36:49.933Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/may-sarton"
name: "May Sarton"
slug: "may-sarton"
description: "Eleanore Marie Sarton, known by the pen name May Sarton, was a Belgian and American novelist, poet, and memoirist. Notably, Sarton came out as a lesbian in her writing in 1965, a time when it was highly unusual to do so."
tagline: "American poet, novelist, and memoirist (1912-1995)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2b/May_Sarton.jpg"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1912-05-03"
deathDate: "1995-07-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           52.32
  momentum:             15
  historical:           13.45083733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
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    title: "ماي سارتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "May Sarton"
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    title: "May Sarton"
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    title: "May Sarton"
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    title: "May Sarton"
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    title: "May Sarton"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Sarton"
    title: "May Sarton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Sarton"
    title: "May Sarton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "メイ・サートン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump