# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/neal-stephenson
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:57:12.696Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/neal-stephenson"
name: "Neal Stephenson"
slug: "neal-stephenson"
description: "Neal Town Stephenson is an American writer known for his works of speculative fiction. His novels have been categorized as science fiction, historical fiction, cyberpunk, and baroque."
tagline: "American science fiction writer (born 1959)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Neal_Stephenson_2008_crop.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1959-10-31"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump