# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/van-wyck-brooks
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:32:51.753Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/van-wyck-brooks"
name: "Van Wyck Brooks"
slug: "van-wyck-brooks"
description: "Van Wyck Brooks was an American literary critic, biographer, and historian."
tagline: "American literary critic, biographer and historian (1886–1963)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/VanWyckBrooks.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1886-02-16"
deathDate: "1963-05-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.16
  momentum:             18.29359165424739
  historical:           11.56544533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%83%D8%B3"
    title: "فان بروكس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Wyck_Brooks"
    title: "Van Wyck Brooks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Wyck_Brooks"
    title: "Van Wyck Brooks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Wyck_Brooks"
    title: "Van Wyck Brooks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "وان وایک بروکس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Wyck_Brooks"
    title: "Van Wyck Brooks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Wyck_Brooks"
    title: "Van Wyck Brooks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A1%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AF%E3%82%A4%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%83%96%E3%83%AB%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%82%B9"
    title: "ヴァン・ワイク・ブルックス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Брукс, Ван Вик"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Wyck_Brooks"
    title: "Van Wyck Brooks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Wyck_Brooks"
    title: "Van Wyck Brooks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%92%D1%96%D0%BA_%D0%91%D1%80%D1%83%D0%BA%D1%81"
    title: "Ван Вік Брукс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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