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.
He later chronicled those experiences in his
memoir, Dispatches. He is the author of three other
books, The Big Room, Walter Winchell, and Kubrick,
and coauthor of the screenplays for Apocalypse
Now and Full Metal Jacket. He died in 2016.
Robert Stone, a National Book Award winner, lives in New
York City.
“The best book I have ever read on men and war in our time.”—John
le Carré
“In the great line of Crane, Orwell, and Hemingway . . . Herr
reaches an excruciating level of intensity . . . He seems to have
brought to this book the ear of a musician and the eye of a painter
. . . The premier war correspondence of Vietnam.”—The Washington
Post
" . . . Dispatches puts the rest of us in the shade."
—Hunter S. Thompson
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