# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/scott-nearing
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:03:00.393Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/scott-nearing"
name: "Scott Nearing"
slug: "scott-nearing"
description: "Scott Nearing was an American radical economist, educator, writer, political activist, pacifist, vegetarian and advocate of simple living. In 1915, he was dismissed from a teaching position at the Wharton School on account of his left-wing politics, becoming a cause célèbre of the American Left. His opposition to American entry into World War I led to his prosecution under the Espionage Act, for which he was found not guilty. After the war, he became a leading leftist intellectual associated with the Socialist Party of America, and later with the Communist Party USA. From the Great Depression until the end of his life, Nearing and his wife Helen lived a self-sufficient homesteading lifestyle. Together, they published Living the Good Life: How to Live Simply and Sanely in a Troubled World in 1954."
tagline: "American activist (1883–1983)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Scottnearing.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1883-08-06"
deathDate: "1983-08-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.04094165813715456
  historical:           7.937298666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump