# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-wallace-wells
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:58:02.583Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/david-wallace-wells"
name: "David Wallace-Wells"
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description: "David Wallace-Wells is an American journalist known for his writings on climate change. He wrote the 2017 essay \"The Uninhabitable Earth\"; the essay was published in New York as a long-form article and was the most-read article in the history of the magazine."
tagline: "American journalist"
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birthDate: "1982"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump