# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sam-kean
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:42:49.960Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sam-kean"
name: "Sam Kean"
slug: "sam-kean"
description: "Sam Kean is an American writer. He has written for The New York Times Magazine, Mental Floss, Slate, Psychology Today, and The New Scientist. He has also published six books which discuss scientific discoveries in a narrative style. His books received positive reviews in The Wall Street Journal Library Journal, and The New York Times. He was born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and lives in Washington, D.C."
tagline: "American author"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sam_Kean_2025_Texas_Book_Festival.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1953"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.66
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.503710666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://samkean.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Kean"
    title: "Sam Kean"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Kean"
    title: "Sam Kean"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Kean"
    title: "Sam Kean"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/c0115dcc-3041-42ca-bd70-0961af24b497"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Kean"
    title: "Sam Kean"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B8%D0%BD%2C_%D0%A1%D1%8D%D0%BC"
    title: "Кин, Сэм"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19663705"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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