# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sebastian-junger
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:02:47.024Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sebastian-junger"
name: "Sebastian Junger"
slug: "sebastian-junger"
description: "Sebastian Junger is an American journalist, author and filmmaker who has reported in-the-field on dirty, dangerous and demanding occupations and the experience of infantry combat. He is the author of The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea (1997) which was adapted into a major motion picture and led to a resurgence in adventure creative nonfiction writing. He covered the War in Afghanistan for more than a decade, often embedded in dangerous and remote military outposts. The book War (2010) was drawn from his field reporting for Vanity Fair, that also served as the background for the documentary film Restrepo (2010) which received the Grand Jury Prize for best documentary at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. Junger's works explore themes such as brotherhood, trauma, and the relationship of the individual to society as told from the far reaches of human experience."
tagline: "American author, journalist and documentarian"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sebastian_Junger%2C_April_2013.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1962-01-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             7.643583372754921
  historical:           12.13817866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     85
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0432631"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump