# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jan-ellison
# Generated: 2026-09-03T12:23:34.941Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jan-ellison"
name: "Jan Ellison"
slug: "jan-ellison"
description: "Jan Ellison is an American novelist, philanthropist and the wife of Roblox CEO David Baszucki. After leaving college for a year, she travelled to Europe where she took notes. In 2007, she won a O'Henry prize after writing her first published short story The Company of Men. In 2015, she wrote her first novel A Small Indiscretion, which got featured on news outlets such as USA Today."
tagline: "American author (born 1966)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jan_Ellison_at_RDC_2025_(cropped).png?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1966-01-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.04
  momentum:             1.00264486655446
  historical:           1.698069333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     15
  profileCompleteness:  59
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "LINKEDIN"
    url:       "https://www.linkedin.com/in/janellisonbaszucki/"
    handle:    "janellisonbaszucki"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Ellison"
    title: "Jan Ellison"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q120594960"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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