# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-wright
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:48:37.011Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-wright"
name: "Robert Wright"
slug: "robert-wright"
description: "Robert Wright is an American author and journalist known for his wide-ranging interests in philosophy, society, science, history, politics, international relations, and religion. He has published five books: Three Scientists and Their Gods: Looking for Meaning in an Age of Information (1988), The Moral Animal (1994), Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny (1999), The Evolution of God (2009), and Why Buddhism is True (2017). Wright has taught at Princeton University and the University of Pennsylvania; more recently, in 2019 he was Visiting Professor of Science and Religion at Union Theological Seminary, New York."
tagline: "American journalist and author (born 1957)"
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1957-01-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-category-fill