# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walter-isaacson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:25:07.541Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/walter-isaacson"
name: "Walter Isaacson"
slug: "walter-isaacson"
description: "Walter Seff Isaacson is an American journalist who has written biographies of Henry Kissinger, Benjamin Franklin, Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein, Steve Jobs, Jennifer Doudna, and Elon Musk. As of 2024, Isaacson is a professor at Tulane University and, since 2018, an interviewer for the PBS and CNN news show Amanpour & Company."
tagline: "American author, journalist and professor (born 1952)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Walter_Isaacson_VF_2012_Shankbone_2.JPG?width=1200"
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country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1952-05-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump