# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walter-jackson-bate
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:30:54.127Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walter-jackson-bate"
name: "Walter Jackson Bate"
slug: "walter-jackson-bate"
description: "Walter Jackson Bate was an American literary critic and biographer. He is known for Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography-winning biographies of Samuel Johnson (1978) and John Keats (1964). \nSamuel Johnson also won the 1978 U.S. National Book Award in Biography."
tagline: "American biographer (1918–1999)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/85/Walter_Jackson_Bate.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1918-05-23"
deathDate: "1999-07-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.75
  momentum:             0.9843907351460222
  historical:           5.478762666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Walter Jackson Bate"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%B1_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AA"
    title: "والتر جاكسون بيت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "والتر جاكسون بيت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_Bate"
    title: "Jackson Bate"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Jackson_Bate"
    title: "Walter Jackson Bate"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Jackson_Bate"
    title: "Walter Jackson Bate"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7965245"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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