# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-hayden
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:26:29.247Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-hayden"
name: "Robert Hayden"
slug: "robert-hayden"
description: "Robert Hayden was an American poet, essayist, and educator. He served as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1976 to 1978, a role today known as U.S. Poet Laureate. He was the first African-American writer to hold the office."
tagline: "American writer and academic (1913–1980)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4d/Robert_Hayden.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1913-08-04"
deathDate: "1980-02-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.6
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.237476000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "روبرت هايدن"
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    title: "Robert Hayden"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Robert Hayden"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hayden"
    title: "Robert Hayden"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%98_%D7%94%D7%99%D7%99%D7%93%D7%9F"
    title: "רוברט היידן"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hayden"
    title: "Robert Hayden"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hayden"
    title: "Robert Hayden"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hayden"
    title: "Robert Hayden"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_Hayden"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/8a5ab302-22a9-4c04-9446-d0970638beaf"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q931747"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump