# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-bly
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:21:54.707Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-bly"
name: "Robert Bly"
slug: "robert-bly"
description: "Robert Elwood Bly was an American poet, essayist, activist and leader of the mythopoetic men's movement. His best-known prose book is Iron John: A Book About Men (1990), which spent 62 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list, and is a key text of the mythopoetic men's movement. He won the 1968 National Book Award for Poetry for his book The Light Around the Body."
tagline: "American poet, author, and activist (1926–2021)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Poetry_Out_Loud_MN_finals_27.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1926-12-23"
deathDate: "2021-11-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  75
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump