# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/susan-orlean
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:25:28.697Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/susan-orlean"
name: "Susan Orlean"
slug: "susan-orlean"
description: "Susan Orlean is an American journalist, television writer, and bestselling author of The Orchid Thief and The Library Book. She has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1992, and has contributed articles to many magazines including Vogue, Rolling Stone, Esquire, and Outside. In 2021, Orlean joined the writing team of HBO comedy series How To with John Wilson."
tagline: "American journalist and author"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Susan_Orlean_2018.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1955-10-31"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           13.14108933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     95
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 22
platforms:
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    handle:    "susanorlean"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
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    handle:    "susanorlean"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://susanorlean.com"
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    handle:    "susan-orlean-b64795a8"
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    handle:    "nm0650036"
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    handle:    "@susanorlean"
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    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Susan Orlean"
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    title: "Susan Orlean"
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    title: "Susan Orlean"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump