# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-elder-robison
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:35:15.982Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-elder-robison"
name: "John Elder Robison"
slug: "john-elder-robison"
description: "John Elder Robison is an American author who wrote the 2007 memoir Look Me in the Eye, detailing his life with undiagnosed Asperger syndrome and savant abilities, and three other books. Robison wrote his first book at age 49."
tagline: "American writer (born 1957)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Robison%2C_individual_with_Asperger_syndrome%2C_autism_activist%2C_May_2011.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1957-08-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.34
  momentum:             1.196013289036545
  historical:           5.515626666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/johnrobison"
    handle:    "johnrobison"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/JohnElderRobison"
    handle:    "JohnElderRobison"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.johnrobison.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Elder_Robison"
    title: "John Elder Robison"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Elder_Robison"
    title: "John Elder Robison"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Elder_Robison"
    title: "John Elder Robison"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/a7ddade5-06f0-48df-a687-a119019c6feb"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Elder_Robison"
    title: "John Elder Robison"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Elder_Robison"
    title: "John Elder Robison"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6231539"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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