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Michael Herr
Michael Herr
(born April 13, 1940 in
Syracuse, New York
) is an American writer and former
war correspondent
, best 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." Herr later was credited with pioneering the literary genre of the
nonfiction novel
, along with authors such as
Truman Capote
,
Norman Mailer
, and
Tom Wolfe
.
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