# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-m-pirsig
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:45:51.770Z

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name: "Robert M. Pirsig"
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description: "Robert Maynard Pirsig was an American writer and philosopher. He is the author of the philosophical books Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values (1974) and Lila: An Inquiry into Morals (1991), and he co-authored On Quality: An Inquiry Into Excellence: Selected and Unpublished Writings (2022) along with his wife and editor, Wendy Pirsig."
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birthDate: "1928-09-06"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
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