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Michael David Herr (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.
Jun 25, 2016 · Michael Herr, who wrote “Dispatches,” a glaringly intense, personal account of being a correspondent in Vietnam that is widely viewed as one of the most visceral and persuasive depictions of the...
Jun 28, 2016 · Remembering Michael Herr, Whose 'Dispatches' Brought The War In Vietnam Home. June 28, 20161:55 PM ET. Heard on Fresh Air. 14-Minute Listen. Playlist. Herr's 1977 book, Dispatches, was based on...
Aug 6, 1991 · Michael Herr’s unsparing, unorthodox retellings of the day-to-day events in Vietnam take on the force of poetry, rendering clarity from one of the most incomprehensible and nightmarish events of our time. Dispatches is among the most blistering and compassionate accounts of war in our literature.
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.
Jun 24, 2016 · Michael Herr, a Vietnam War reporter whose "Dispatches" remains one of the most powerful books about the ravages of combat and who later contributed to the screenplays of such bleak Vietnam-set...
Jun 24, 2016 · Michael Herr, the author of Dispatches and co-writer of Full Metal Jacket, is dead at 76. His masterpiece, Dispatches, has been out of fashion for a while, but when it was...
