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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 · June 24, 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...
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...
Jun 24, 2016 · Michael Herr, author of Dispatches, dies aged 76. Author whose memoir of Vietnam was deemed by many to be one of the best accounts of life in wartime ever written, has died in New York. Sian...
Jun 24, 2016 · June 24, 20163:44 PM ET. Rose Friedman. 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...
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 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.
