# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/weldon-kees
# Generated: 2026-08-12T16:20:11.763Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/weldon-kees"
name: "Weldon Kees"
slug: "weldon-kees"
description: "Harry Weldon Kees was an American poet, librarian, painter, literary critic, novelist, playwright, jazz pianist, short story writer, and filmmaker. Despite his brief career, Kees is considered an important mid-twentieth-century poet of the Beat generation, and peer of John Berryman, Elizabeth Bishop, and Robert Lowell. His work has been immensely influential on subsequent generations of poets writing in English and other languages and his collected poems have been included in many anthologies. Harold Bloom lists the publication of Kees's first book The Last Man (1943) as an important event in the chronology of his textbook Modern American Poetry as well as a book worthy of his Western Canon."
tagline: "American artist (1914-1955)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Weldon_Kees.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1914-02-24"
deathDate: "1955-07-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.87
  momentum:             6.250000000000002
  historical:           6.831176
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Weldon_Kees"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "ويلدون كيس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ويلدون كيس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weldon_Kees"
    title: "Weldon Kees"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weldon_Kees"
    title: "Weldon Kees"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weldon_Kees"
    title: "Weldon Kees"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B8%D1%81%2C_%D0%A3%D1%8D%D0%BB%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Кис, Уэлдон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%84%DA%88%D9%86_%DA%A9%DB%8C%D8%B2"
    title: "ویلڈن کیز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7980910"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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