# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-mcclure
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:58:34.009Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-mcclure"
name: "Michael McClure"
slug: "michael-mcclure"
description: "Michael McClure was an American poet, playwright, songwriter, and novelist. After moving to San Francisco as a young man, he found fame as one of the five poets who read at the famous San Francisco Six Gallery reading in 1955, which was barely fictionalized in Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums. He soon became a key member of the Beat Generation and was immortalized as Pat McLear in Kerouac's Big Sur."
tagline: "American writer (1932–2020)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/GloriaGrahamMichael_McMclure2004.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1932-10-20"
deathDate: "2020-05-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.9
  momentum:             0.6161369193154035
  historical:           15.21148933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0566022/"
    handle:    "nm0566022"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.michael-mcclure.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "مايكل مكلور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "مايكل مكلور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_McClure"
    title: "Michael McClure"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_McClure"
    title: "Michael McClure"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_McClure"
    title: "Michael McClure"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_McClure"
    title: "Michael McClure"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_McClure"
    title: "Michael McClure"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_McClure"
    title: "Michael McClure"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_McClure"
    title: "Michael McClure"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_McClure"
    title: "Michael McClure"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_McClure"
    title: "Michael McClure"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_McClure"
    title: "Michael McClure"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%BA%D0%BB%D1%83%D1%80%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BA%D0%BB"
    title: "Макклур, Майкл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_McClure"
    title: "Michael McClure"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_McClure"
    title: "Michael McClure"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikiquote.org/wiki/Michael_McClure"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/6a966df2-735d-463d-94e8-3f0c23af0e82"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1390054"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1998443"
    title: "Michael McClure"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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