# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/terry-southern
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:43:43.596Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/terry-southern"
name: "Terry Southern"
slug: "terry-southern"
description: "Terry Southern was an American novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and university lecturer, noted for his distinctive satirical style. Part of the Paris postwar literary movement in the 1950s and a companion to Beat writers in Greenwich Village, Southern was also at the center of Swinging London in the 1960s and helped to change the style and substance of American films in the 1970s. He briefly wrote for Saturday Night Live in the 1980s."
tagline: "American writer (1924–1995)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Terry_Southern_American_novelist%2C_essayist%2C_screenwriter_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1924-05-01"
deathDate: "1995-10-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           52.53
  momentum:             0.8545034642032331
  historical:           17.93990133333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0816143"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump