Michael Herr (1940–2016)
Autor/a de Dispatches
Sobre l'autor
Michael Herr was born in Lexington, Kentucky on April 13, 1940. He attended Syracuse University, but dropped out to travel in Europe and write. He served in the Army Reserve and wrote for publications including The New Leader and Holiday. From 1967-1969, he was a correspondent for Esquire magazine mostra'n més during the Vietnam War. He wrote the article Hell Sucks, which put him in the forefront of the journalists who were writing on the war at that time. The piece became part of Dispatches, a memoir of his time in Vietnam, which was published in 1977. He also wrote Walter Winchell: A Novel, an experiment in which he combined a novel and a screenplay to tell the story of one of the country's most influential gossip columnists. He was active in the motion picture industry with writing credits for Apocalypse Now, Full Metal Jacket, The Island of Dr. Moreau, Heart of Darkness, and The Rainmaker. In addition, he served as an associate producer of Full Metal Jacket. He died on June 23, 2016 at the age of 76. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
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Obres de Michael Herr
On the Road [screenplay] 1 exemplars
ΚΟΥΡΕΛΙΑ (Dispatches) 1 exemplars
Obres associades
The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism (1997) — Col·laborador — 211 exemplars
The Greatest War Stories Ever Told: Twenty-Four Incredible War Tales (2001) — Col·laborador — 26 exemplars
Amerika, Amerika bloemlezing — Col·laborador — 8 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom normalitzat
- Herr, Michael
- Nom oficial
- Herr, Michael David
- Data de naixement
- 1940-04-13
- Data de defunció
- 2016-06-23
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- Lexington, Kentucky, USA
- Lloc de defunció
- Delhi, New York, USA
- Llocs de residència
- Lexington, Kentucky, USA
Syracuse, New York, USA
Vietnam
New York, New York, USA
London, England, UK
Delhi, New York, USA - Educació
- Syracuse University
- Professions
- war correspondent
screenwriter
journalist - Organitzacions
- Esquire Magazine
Membres
Ressenyes
Dispatches de Michael Herr
Sorry, just couldn't get past page 50. The author's style is simply not for me. I found it all over the place. No specific narrative, non sequitur paragraphs and sentences that were simply too disjointed to read. I have no idea why this book is considered so groundbreaking and amazing? Maybe it was when it first came out, but this style of writing is just not for me. I am also reading The Things They Carried, also about Vietnam. This is an incredible book, and far superior to Dispatches. If you have one book to read about Vietnam, pass on Dispatches and read this one.… (més)
Reason read: it's on my randomization list and it was available on Libby
This is not really a novel but journalism, nonfiction and takes place during the Vietnam War. Michael Herr was an American writer and war correspondent for Esquire. I grew up listening to these stories and seeing the pictures on the TV. Herr explores not only the war, the soldiers, and the people but also the war corespondents that went to Vietnam and reported on the war. He discussed how loyalties of the correspondents to agencies in the US kept them from reporting the realities of the war. This is about Herr's experience in the war so it is a memoir. Not sure how it contributes to the development of the novel except that it reports on the realities of the Vietnam war. It's a quick read but hard to describe as enjoyable with the death, language, attitudes, and behaviors. It's about the men who fought and reported on the war.
The 100 best nonfiction books: No 9 – Dispatches by Michael Herr (1977) | Autobiography and memoir | The Guardian.
Considered a nonfiction novel… (més)
This is not really a novel but journalism, nonfiction and takes place during the Vietnam War. Michael Herr was an American writer and war correspondent for Esquire. I grew up listening to these stories and seeing the pictures on the TV. Herr explores not only the war, the soldiers, and the people but also the war corespondents that went to Vietnam and reported on the war. He discussed how loyalties of the correspondents to agencies in the US kept them from reporting the realities of the war. This is about Herr's experience in the war so it is a memoir. Not sure how it contributes to the development of the novel except that it reports on the realities of the Vietnam war. It's a quick read but hard to describe as enjoyable with the death, language, attitudes, and behaviors. It's about the men who fought and reported on the war.
The 100 best nonfiction books: No 9 – Dispatches by Michael Herr (1977) | Autobiography and memoir | The Guardian.
Considered a nonfiction novel… (més)
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Estadístiques
- Obres
- 11
- També de
- 10
- Membres
- 3,814
- Popularitat
- #6,646
- Valoració
- 4.1
- Ressenyes
- 67
- ISBN
- 85
- Llengües
- 9
- Preferit
- 5
- Pedres de toc
- 115
