# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-c-lea-iii
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:10:00.157Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-c-lea-iii"
name: "Thomas C. Lea III"
slug: "thomas-c-lea-iii"
description: "Thomas Calloway Lea III was an American muralist, illustrator, artist, war correspondent, novelist, and historian. The bulk of his art and literary works were about Texas, north-central Mexico, and his World War II experience in the South Pacific and Asia. Two of his most popular novels, The Brave Bulls and The Wonderful Country, are widely considered to be classics of southwestern American literature."
tagline: "American artist, writer and journalist (1907-2001)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tom_Lea_1938_cropped.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1907-07-11"
deathDate: "2001-01-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.33
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.645766666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "جیم توماس لیا الثالث"
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    title: "جيم توماس ليا الثالث"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Lea"
    title: "Tom Lea"
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    title: "תומאס סי. לי השלישי"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump