# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/susan-jacoby
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:49:49.176Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/susan-jacoby"
name: "Susan Jacoby"
slug: "susan-jacoby"
description: "Susan Jacoby is an American author. Her 2008 book about American anti-intellectualism, The Age of American Unreason, was a New York Times best seller. She is an atheist and a secularist. Jacoby graduated from Michigan State University in 1965. She lives in New York City."
tagline: "American journalist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Susan_Jacoby_at_CFI_WIS-May_18_2012.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1945-06-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  historical:           9.21782
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "http://www.susanjacoby.com/"
sources:
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    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "سوزان جکوبی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Susan Jacoby"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Susan Jacoby"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump