# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-steiner
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:27:16.131Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/george-steiner"
name: "George Steiner"
slug: "george-steiner"
description: "Francis George Steiner, FBA was a French and American literary critic, essayist, philosopher, novelist and educator. He wrote extensively about the relationship between language, literature and society, as well as the impact of the Holocaust. A 2001 article in The Guardian described Steiner as a \"polyglot and polymath\"."
tagline: "American writer (1928–2020)"
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birthDate: "1929-04-23"
deathDate: "2020-02-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump