# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joe-klein
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:57:20.005Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joe-klein"
name: "Joe Klein"
slug: "joe-klein"
description: "Joe Klein is an American political commentator and author. He is best known for his work as a columnist for Time magazine and his novel Primary Colors, an anonymously written roman à clef portraying Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign. Klein was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is a former Guggenheim Fellow. In April 2006 he published Politics Lost, a book on what he calls the \"pollster–consultant industrial complex.\" He has also written articles and book reviews for The New Republic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Life, and Rolling Stone."
tagline: "American journalist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joe_Klein_2011_Shankbone.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1946-09-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.71
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.514834666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/JoeKleinTIME"
    handle:    "JoeKleinTIME"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0458826/"
    handle:    "nm0458826"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joe_Klein"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88_%D9%83%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "جو كلاين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جو كلاين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Klein"
    title: "Joe Klein"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Klein"
    title: "Joe Klein"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Klein"
    title: "Joe Klein"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Klein"
    title: "Joe Klein"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Klein"
    title: "Joe Klein"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1691492"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Joe Klein"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump