# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/maggie-nelson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:36:58.266Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/maggie-nelson"
name: "Maggie Nelson"
slug: "maggie-nelson"
description: "Maggie Nelson is an American writer. She has been described as a genre-busting writer defying classification, working in autobiography, art criticism, theory, feminism, queerness, sexual violence, the history of the avant-garde, aesthetic theory, philosophy, scholarship, and poetry. Nelson received a 2016 MacArthur Fellowship, and several other major awards in the years before that. She is best known for her work of autotheory, The Argonauts (2015)."
tagline: "American writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Maggie_Nelson.png?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1973-03-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.68
  momentum:             1.167898193760263
  historical:           11.32920933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://dornsife.usc.edu/cwphd/maggie-nelson"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%BA%D9%8A_%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Maggie Nelson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggie_Nelson"
    title: "Maggie Nelson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%DA%AF%DB%8C_%D9%86%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86"
    title: "مگی نلسن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggie_Nelson"
    title: "Maggie Nelson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggie_Nelson"
    title: "Maggie Nelson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Մեգի Նելսոն"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggie_Nelson"
    title: "Maggie Nelson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggie_Nelson"
    title: "Maggie Nelson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%9C%D1%8D%D0%B3%D0%B3%D0%B8"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggie_Nelson"
    title: "Maggie Nelson"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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