# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/elif-batuman
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:35:32.049Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/elif-batuman"
name: "Elif Batuman"
slug: "elif-batuman"
description: "Elif Batuman is an American author, academic, and journalist. She is the author of three books: a memoir, The Possessed (2010), the novel The Idiot (2017), which was a finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and Either/Or (2022). Batuman is a staff writer for The New Yorker."
tagline: "American writer and academic"
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country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1977-06-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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platforms:
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    url:       "https://x.com/BananaKarenina"
    handle:    "BananaKarenina"
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    url:       "http://elifbatuman.com"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump