Michael Herr
Born 13 Apr 1940 · Died 23 Jun 2016
From Lexington, Kentucky, United States · Nationality: United States · Writes fiction and nonfiction
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 magazine (1967–1969) during the Vietnam War. The book was called the best "to have been written about the Vietnam War" by The New York Times Book Review. Novelist John le Carré called it "the best book I have ever read on men and war in our time."
Source: Michael Herr on Wikipedia.
Quotes
“There was such a dense concentration of energy there [Vietnam], American and essentially adolescent, if that energy could have been channeled into anything more than noise, waste and pain it would have lighted up Indochina for a thousand years.”
Dispatches “I think that Vietnam is what we had instead of happy childhoods.”
Dispatches “War stories aren’t really anything more than stories about people anyway.”
Dispatches “Black sergeant: You a reporter? / Herr: No, a writer. / Black sergeant: Careful. You can’t use no eraser up where you wanna go.”
Dispatches
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Books by Michael Herr in order
Books by Michael Herr in the order they were published, from Dispatches (1977) to We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow (2015).
- 1Dispatches
Dispatches1977 - 2The Big RoomThe Big Room1987
- 3Walter Winchell
Walter Winchell1990 - 4WinchelWinchel1992
- 5Kubrick
Kubrick2000 - 6Is Chicken Skin a Local Delicacy?
Is Chicken Skin a Local Delicacy?2005 - 7The Bones of the Kuhina Nui
The Bones of the Kuhina Nui2006 - 8We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow
We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow2015