# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ben-marcus
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:21:13.713Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ben-marcus"
name: "Ben Marcus"
slug: "ben-marcus"
description: "Ben Marcus is an American author and professor at Columbia University. He has written five books of fiction. His stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in publications including Harper's, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Granta, The New York Times, GQ, Salon, McSweeney's, Time, and Conjunctions. He is also the fiction editor of The American Reader. His latest book, Notes From The Fog: Stories, was published by Alfred A. Knopf in August 2018."
tagline: "American writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ben_marcus_3041200.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1967-10-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.5
  momentum:             2.821997105643995
  historical:           6.365229333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.benmarcus.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Marcus"
    title: "Ben Marcus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%86_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%83%D9%88%D8%B3"
    title: "بن ماركوس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%83%D9%88%D8%B3"
    title: "بين ماركوس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%86_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%DA%A9%D9%88%D8%B3"
    title: "بن مارکوس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Marcus"
    title: "Ben Marcus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Marcus"
    title: "Ben Marcus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%86_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%DA%A9%D9%88%D8%B3"
    title: "بن مارکوس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q816553"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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