# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/steve-alten
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:49:15.165Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/steve-alten"
name: "Steve Alten"
slug: "steve-alten"
description: "Steven Robert Alten is an American science-fiction author. He is best known for his Meg series of novels set around the fictitious survival of the megalodon, a giant, prehistoric shark."
tagline: "American writer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1959-08-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.47
  momentum:             0.0428082191780822
  historical:           10.61778933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0022709/"
    handle:    "nm0022709"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://stevealten.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Steve_Alten"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%86"
    title: "ستيف التن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%DB%8C%D9%88_%D8%A2%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%86"
    title: "استیو آلتن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%B2_%D0%9E%D0%BB%D1%82%D1%8A%D0%BD"
    title: "Стив Олтън"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Alten"
    title: "Steve Alten"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Alten"
    title: "Steve Alten"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%DB%8C%D9%88_%D8%A2%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%86"
    title: "استیو آلتن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Alten"
    title: "Steve Alten"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Alten"
    title: "Steve Alten"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Alten"
    title: "Steve Alten"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8F%B2%E8%92%82%E5%A4%AB%C2%B7%E8%89%BE%E9%A8%B0"
    title: "史蒂夫·艾騰"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Steve_Alten"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2442559"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1243035"
    title: "Steve Alten"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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