# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/verlyn-flieger
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:36:06.091Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/verlyn-flieger"
name: "Verlyn Flieger"
slug: "verlyn-flieger"
description: "Verlyn Flieger is an author, editor, and Professor Emerita in the Department of English at the University of Maryland at College Park, where she taught courses in comparative mythology, medieval literature, and the works of J. R. R. Tolkien. She is well known as a Tolkien scholar, especially for her books Splintered Light, A Question of Time, and Interrupted Music. She has won the Mythopoeic Scholarship Award four times for her work on Tolkien's Middle-earth writings."
tagline: "British writer"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1933"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.09
  momentum:             4.511278195488723
  historical:           6.356013333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Verlyn_Flieger"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verlyn_Flieger"
    title: "Verlyn Flieger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verlyn_Flieger"
    title: "Verlyn Flieger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verlyn_Flieger"
    title: "Verlyn Flieger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%86_%D9%81%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%AC%D8%B1"
    title: "ورلین فلیجر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verlyn_Flieger"
    title: "Verlyn Flieger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verlyn_Flieger"
    title: "Verlyn Flieger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q93761"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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