# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-howard
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:52:53.740Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-howard"
name: "Richard Howard"
slug: "richard-howard"
description: "Richard Joseph Howard, adopted as Richard Joseph Orwitz, was an American poet, literary critic, essayist, teacher, and translator. He was poet laureate of New York from 1993 to 1995. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and graduated from Columbia University, where he studied under Mark Van Doren, and where he was an emeritus professor. He lived in New York City."
tagline: "American poet and literary critic (1929–2022)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1929-10-13"
deathDate: "2022-03-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.36
  momentum:             0.6423777564717162
  historical:           11.43996
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "ريتشارد هوارد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Richard Howard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Howard"
    title: "Richard Howard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Howard"
    title: "Richard Howard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%86%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D9%87%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF"
    title: "ریچارد هوارد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Howard"
    title: "Richard Howard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Howard"
    title: "Richard Howard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Howard_(poeta)"
    title: "Richard Howard (poeta)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Howard"
    title: "Richard Howard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Howard"
    title: "Richard Howard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Howard"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump