# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ruth-stone
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:17:56.813Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ruth-stone"
name: "Ruth Stone"
slug: "ruth-stone"
description: "Ruth Stone was an American poet. She was published widely in periodicals throughout her career and was the author of thirteen collections, as well as a teacher at many schools before finding stable tenure at Binghamton University in 1990, in her 70s. She found wide recognition late in life, in her 80s, winning a National Book Critics Circle Award in 1999 for the collection Ordinary Words, a National Book Award for Poetry and Wallace Stevens Award in 2002 for the collection In the Next Galaxy, becoming Poet Laureate of Vermont in 2007, and becoming a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2009 for the collection What Love Comes To."
tagline: "American poet (1915–2011)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b2/Ruth_Stone_2009.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1915-06-08"
deathDate: "2011-11-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.44
  momentum:             0.7712765957446809
  historical:           5.947913333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2111521/"
    handle:    "nm2111521"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "روث ستون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Рут Стоун"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Stone"
    title: "Ruth Stone"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Stone"
    title: "Ruth Stone"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Stone"
    title: "Ruth Stone"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%82%E0%B0%A4%E0%B1%8D_%E0%B0%B8%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9F%E0%B1%8B%E0%B0%A8%E0%B1%8D"
    title: "రూత్ స్టోన్"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump