# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ron-padgett
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:11:04.069Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ron-padgett"
name: "Ron Padgett"
slug: "ron-padgett"
description: "Ron Padgett is an American poet, essayist, fiction writer, translator, and a member of the New York School. Great Balls of Fire, Padgett's first full-length collection of poems, was published in 1969. He won a 2009 Shelley Memorial Award. In 2018, he won the Frost Medal from the Poetry Society of America."
tagline: "American writer and translator (born 1942)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/RP_by_John_Sarsgard_cropped.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1942-06-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.5544354838709677
  historical:           10.77102533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.ronpadgett.com"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Ron Padgett"
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    title: "Ron Padgett"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ρον Πάτζετ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ron Padgett"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Padgett"
    title: "Ron Padgett"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Padgett"
    title: "Ron Padgett"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Padgett"
    title: "Ron Padgett"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Padgett"
    title: "Ron Padgett"
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  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Padgett"
    title: "Ron Padgett"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Рон Паджетт"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump