# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-s-hart
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:30:43.621Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-s-hart"
name: "Michael S. Hart"
slug: "michael-s-hart"
description: "Michael Stern Hart was an American author credited with the invention of the e-book, and who founded Project Gutenberg (PG), the first project to make e-books freely available via the Internet. He published e-books via ARPANET years before the Internet existed, and later on BBS networks and Gopher servers."
tagline: "American author, founder of Project Gutenberg (1947–2011)"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1947-03-08"
deathDate: "2011-09-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    title: "마이클 스턴 하트"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump