# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-irwin-thompson
# Generated: 2026-09-01T05:03:39.288Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-irwin-thompson"
name: "William Irwin Thompson"
slug: "william-irwin-thompson"
description: "William Irwin Thompson was an American social philosopher, cultural critic, and poet. He received the Oslo International Poetry Festival Award in 1986. He described his writing and speaking style as \"mind-jazz on ancient texts\". He was the founder of the Lindisfarne Association, which proposed the study and realization of a new planetary culture."
tagline: "American poet and social critic (1938–2020)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Irwin_Thompson_1996.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1938-07-16"
deathDate: "2020-11-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.022284
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump