# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-empson
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:51:03.686Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-empson"
name: "William Empson"
slug: "william-empson"
description: "Sir William Empson was an English literary critic and poet, widely influential for his practice of closely reading literary works, a practice fundamental to New Criticism. His best-known work is his first, Seven Types of Ambiguity, published in 1930."
tagline: "English literary critic and poet (1906–1984)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Empson.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1906-09-27"
deathDate: "1984-04-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump