# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/suzette-haden-elgin
# Generated: 2026-08-15T11:00:54.674Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/suzette-haden-elgin"
name: "Suzette Haden Elgin"
slug: "suzette-haden-elgin"
description: "Suzette Haden Elgin was an American researcher in experimental linguistics, construction and evolution of languages and poetry and science fiction writer. She founded the Science Fiction Poetry Association and is considered an important figure in the field of science-fiction constructed languages. Her best-known non-fiction includes her Verbal Self-Defense series."
tagline: "American linguist and writer (1936-2015)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/26/Suzette_Haden_Elgin_in_2005.png/330px-Suzette_Haden_Elgin_in_2005.png"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1936-11-18"
deathDate: "2015-01-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.219991467687097
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  sourceConfidence:     70
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  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm2928051"
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    url:       "https://sfwa.org/members/elgin"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump