# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/p-j-o-rourke
# Generated: 2026-09-02T13:10:56.331Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/p-j-o-rourke"
name: "P. J. O'Rourke"
slug: "p-j-o-rourke"
description: "Patrick Jake O'Rourke was an American author, journalist, and political satirist who wrote twenty-two books on subjects as diverse as politics, cars, etiquette, and economics. His books Parliament of Whores and Give War a Chance both reached No. 1 on The New York Times bestseller list."
tagline: "American political satirist and journalist (1947–2022)"
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1947-11-14"
deathDate: "2022-02-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump