# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wallace-terry
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:07:35.998Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wallace-terry"
name: "Wallace Terry"
slug: "wallace-terry"
description: "Wallace Houston Terry, II was an African-American journalist and oral historian, best known for his book about black soldiers in Vietnam, Bloods: An Oral History of the Vietnam War (1984), which served as inspiration for the 1995 crime thriller Dead Presidents and the Spike Lee's 2020 war drama Da 5 Bloods."
tagline: "American journalist and historian (1938–2003)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Wallace_Terry_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1938-04-21"
deathDate: "2003-05-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.06
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.618432
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.wallaceterry.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B3_%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A"
    title: "والاس تيري"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B3_%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%89"
    title: "والاس تيرى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_Terry"
    title: "Wallace Terry"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_Terry"
    title: "Wallace Terry"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_Terry"
    title: "Wallace Terry"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7962906"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump