# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-dirda
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:56:35.321Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-dirda"
name: "Michael Dirda"
slug: "michael-dirda"
description: "Michael Dirda is an American book critic who worked at The Washington Post from 1978 to 2026. He has been a Fulbright Fellow and won a Pulitzer Prize in 1993."
tagline: "American literary critic"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Michael_dirda_2008.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1948-11-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.73
  momentum:             5.761589403973509
  historical:           4.226496
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "http://www.michaeldirda.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Michael Dirda"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump