# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/elaine-showalter
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:24:33.638Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/elaine-showalter"
name: "Elaine Showalter"
slug: "elaine-showalter"
description: "Elaine Showalter is an American literary critic, feminist, and writer on cultural and social issues. She influenced feminist literary criticism in the United States academia, developing the concept and practice of gynocritics, a term describing the study of \"women as writers\"."
tagline: "American literary critic, feminist, and writer on cultural and social issues"
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gender: "female"
country:
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category:
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birthDate: "1941-01-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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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