# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mark-kurlansky
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:01:02.959Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mark-kurlansky"
name: "Mark Kurlansky"
slug: "mark-kurlansky"
description: "Mark Kurlansky is an American journalist and author who has written a number of books of fiction and nonfiction. His 1997 book, Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World (1997), was an international bestseller and was translated into more than fifteen languages. His book Nonviolence: Twenty-five Lessons From the History of a Dangerous Idea (2006) was the nonfiction winner of the 2007 Dayton Literary Peace Prize."
tagline: "American journalist and writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/MarkKurlansky01.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1948-12-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49
  momentum:             1.287878787878788
  historical:           11.669732
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.markkurlansky.com"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "مارك كورلانسكى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Mark Kurlansky"
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    title: "Mark Kurlansky"
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    title: "Mark Kurlansky"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Kurlansky"
    title: "Mark Kurlansky"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Kurlansky"
    title: "Mark Kurlansky"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Kurlansky"
    title: "Mark Kurlansky"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Kurlansky"
    title: "Mark Kurlansky"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Kurlansky"
    title: "Mark Kurlansky"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Курланский, Марк"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Марк Курланскі"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump