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Michael Herr. Michael David Herr [1] (April 13, 1940 – June 23, 2016) was an American writer and war correspondent, known as the author of Dispatches (1977), a memoir of his time as a correspondent for Esquire (1967–1969) during the Vietnam War. The book was called "the best book to have been written about the Vietnam War" by fellow author ...
Jun 25, 2016 · Michael David Herr (pronounced hair) was born on April 13, 1940, in Lexington, Ky. He was still an infant when his parents, Donald Herr and the former Muriel Jacobs, moved the family to Syracuse ...
Jun 28, 2016 · Herr's 1977 book, Dispatches, was based on his time covering the Vietnam War. He also contributed to the films Apocalypse Now and Full Metal Jacket. Herr died last week. Originally broadcast in 1990.
Jun 24, 2016 · Michael Herr, whose depictions of Vietnam redefined the genre of war reporting, died Thursday at a hospital near his home in upstate New York after what his publisher said was a long illness. He ...
Jun 24, 2016 · Michael David Herr was born in Lexington, Ky., on April 13, 1940, and grew up in Syracuse, N.Y., where his father worked as a jeweler. The younger Herr described himself as a “nice, middle-class ...
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Jun 25, 2016 · Michael Herr, the author and Oscar-nominated screenwriter who viscerally documented the ravages of the Vietnam War through his classic nonfiction novel "Dispatches" and through such films as ...
Jun 25, 2016 · NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Herr, the author and Oscar-nominated screenplay writer who viscerally documented the ravages of the Vietnam War through his classic nonfiction novel “Dispatches” and through such films as “Apocalypse Now” and “Full Metal Jacket,” died after a long illness. He was 76.
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