# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sharon-olds
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:10:13.049Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/sharon-olds"
name: "Sharon Olds"
slug: "sharon-olds"
description: "Sharon Olds is an American poet. She won the first San Francisco State University Poetry Center Award in 1980, the 1984 National Book Critics Circle Award, and the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. She teaches creative writing at New York University and is a previous director of the Creative Writing Program at NYU."
tagline: "American poet"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sharon_Olds_(Madrid)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1942-11-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump