# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
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# Generated: 2026-08-31T14:48:25.098Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born around 1343, Chaucer spent most of his working life as a civil servant: bureaucrat, courtier, diplomat, eventually elected to Parliament as shire knight for Kent. But he wrote constantly. The Book of the Duchess, The House of Fame, Troilus and Criseyde, Parlement of Foules — then The Canterbury Tales, the work that would make him the first poet buried in what became Poets' Corner at Westminster Abbey. He also composed A Treatise on the Astrolabe for his ten-year-old son, Lewis, a working scientific text that doubled as philosophy. His contemporary Thomas Hoccleve called him "the firste fyndere of our fair langage" — the first to prove English itself could be the stuff of serious poetry. He died 25 October 1400.