# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-jay-smith
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:52:09.161Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-jay-smith"
name: "William Jay Smith"
slug: "william-jay-smith"
description: "William Jay Smith was an American poet. He was appointed the nineteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1968 to 1970."
tagline: "American writer, translator, editor (1918–2015)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1918-04-22"
deathDate: "2015-08-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.66
  momentum:             9.999999999999998
  historical:           6.615804
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/75544ace-6e37-47d3-a462-451e2c4baf76"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%8A_%D8%B3%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AB_(%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%B1)"
    title: "ويليام جاي سميث (شاعر)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Jay_Smith"
    title: "William Jay Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Jay_Smith"
    title: "William Jay Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%82%2C_%D0%A3%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F%D0%BC_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B9"
    title: "Смит, Уильям Джей"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Jay_Smith"
    title: "William Jay Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Jay_Smith"
    title: "William Jay Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Jay_Smith"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4355736"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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