# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/w-nelson-francis
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:35:55.617Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/w-nelson-francis"
name: "W. Nelson Francis"
slug: "w-nelson-francis"
description: "W. Nelson Francis was an American author, linguist, and university professor. He served as a member of the faculties of Franklin & Marshall College and Brown University, where he specialized in English and corpus linguistics. He is known for his work compiling a text collection entitled the Brown University Standard Corpus of Present-Day American English, which he completed with Henry Kučera."
tagline: "Author, professor, linguist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/WNFrancis.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1910-10-23"
deathDate: "2002-06-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           35.02
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.935385333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "W. Nelson Francis"
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    title: "W. Nelson Francis"
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    title: "Ուինթրոփ Նելսոն Ֆրենսիս"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump