# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lynne-truss
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:44:31.066Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lynne-truss"
name: "Lynne Truss"
slug: "lynne-truss"
description: "Lynne Truss is an English author, journalist, novelist, and radio broadcaster and dramatist. She champions correctness and aesthetics in the English language, which is the subject of her 2003 book, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation. The book was inspired by a BBC Radio 4 show about punctuation, Cutting a Dash, which she presented."
tagline: "English writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lynne_Truss%2C_author_(15906630064).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1955-05-31"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.368973333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.lynnetruss.com/"
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    title: "لين تروس"
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    title: "Lynne Truss"
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    title: "Lynne Truss"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynne_Truss"
    title: "Lynne Truss"
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    title: "Lynne Truss"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynne_Truss"
    title: "Lynne Truss"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump