# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-krassner
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:38:20.314Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-krassner"
name: "Paul Krassner"
slug: "paul-krassner"
description: "Paul Krassner was an American writer and satirist. He was the founder, editor, and a frequent contributor to the freethought magazine The Realist, first published in 1958. Krassner became a key figure in the counterculture of the 1960s as a member of Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters and a founding member of the Yippies, a term he is credited with coining."
tagline: "American writer and satirist (1932–2019)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Paul_Krassner.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1932-04-09"
deathDate: "2019-07-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.35
  momentum:             7.168141592920353
  historical:           8.439749333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0469980/"
    handle:    "nm0469980"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.paulkrassner.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "بول كراسنر"
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    title: "بول كراسنر"
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    title: "Paul Krassner"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Krassner"
    title: "Paul Krassner"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Krassner"
    title: "Paul Krassner"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Krassner"
    title: "Paul Krassner"
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  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Krassner"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump