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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 ...

2. www.nytimes.com › 2016/06/25 › artsMichael Herr, Author of a Vietnam Classic, Dies at 76

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   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 ...

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   • Dispatches is among the most blistering and compassionate accounts of war in our literature. 260 pages, Paperback First published January 1, 1977 Michael Herr was a novelist and war correspondent. Born in Lexington, Kentucky in 1940, he began reporting from Vietnam for Esquire in the 1960s, during the height of the war.

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   How old was Michael Herr when he died?

   • GROSS: Well, I wanted to thank you a lot for talking with us. HERR: Oh, you're welcome. GROSS: Michael Herr recorded in 1990. He died Thursday at the age of 76. Tomorrow on FRESH AIR, how the FBI identifies and tracks those on their terrorism watch list and why the killer in the Orlando nightclub massacre had been taken off the list.

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   Why did Michael Herr go to Vietnam?

   • MICHAEL HERR: You know, I'm a writer so I have a prejudice. You know, I mean, I went to Vietnam in the first place because the assumption that this was television's war and that was the medium that was going to tell the story. And I believed it wasn't telling the story that it required writing to tell the story.

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   Why did Michael Herr write dispatches?

   • "Dispatches," his hybrid of memoir and fiction, was hailed as one of the most important books about the war describing the experiences of disillusioned young American soldiers there. We're going to listen back to the interview I recorded with Michael Herr in 1990. He told me why he had wanted to write about the war.

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   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.

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   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 ...

6. www.npr.org › sections › thetwo-wayMichael Herr, Whose Vietnam War Reporting Became Iconic ... - NPR

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   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 his ...

7. forward.com › culture › 343601Remembering Michael Herr, Unparalleled Chronicler of Vietnam

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   Jun 26, 2016 · Michael Herr Image by YouTube. By Benjamin Ivry June 26, 2016. In “First Kill,” a 2001 Dutch documentary film, Michael Herr, who died on June 23 at age 76, ...

8. www.theguardian.com › books › 2016Michael Herr, author of Dispatches, dies aged 76 | Books ...

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   Jun 24, 2016 · Last modified on Wed 19 May 2021 11.25 EDT. Michael Herr, the American writer and war correspondent famous for writing Dispatches, described as “the best book I have ever read on men and war in ...