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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 ...

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3. 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 ...

4. www.vox.com › 2016/6/24 › 12027118Michael Herr is dead. Read a passage from Dispatches, his ...

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   Jun 24, 2016 · by Emmett Rensin. Jun 24, 2016, 9:00 PM UTC. (from Dispatches, Knopf, 1977) Michael Herr, the author of Dispatches and co-writer of Full Metal Jacket, is dead at 76. His masterpiece, Dispatches ...

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6. www.npr.org › 2016/06/28 › 483776202Remembering Michael Herr, Whose 'Dispatches' Brought ... - NPR

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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 ...

8. www.bbc.co.uk › news › entertainment-arts-36633217Full Metal Jacket and Dispatches writer Michael Herr dies - BBC

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   Jun 26, 2016 · Michael Herr, who co-wrote the Oscar-nominated screenplay for Full Metal Jacket and whose non-fiction novel Dispatches documented the Vietnam War, dies aged 76.

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   Who is Michael Herr?

   • 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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   Is Michael Herr dead?

   • Michael Herr is dead. Read a passage from Dispatches, his masterpiece on the Vietnam War. Michael Herr, the author of Dispatches and co-writer of Full Metal Jacket, is dead at 76.

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   What happened to Michael Herr's dispatches?

   • Read a passage from Dispatches, his masterpiece on the Vietnam War. Michael Herr, the author of Dispatches and co-writer of Full Metal Jacket, is dead at 76. His masterpiece, Dispatches, has been out of fashion for a while, but when it was published in 1977, it was widely regarded as the seminal work of new journalism about the Vietnam War.

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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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   Who is Herr?

   • HERR is a new fetish brand from Amsterdam. Since 2020 we create gear and we specialize in tailor made rubber. HERR is looking to create its team with people who enjoy working with rubber especially, but also with other fetish materials. Are you experienced working with rubber or want to learn it? Then we are definitely looking for you!

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

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    Jun 24, 2016 · 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 publisher said was a long illness. He ...