Herr, Michael

The Oxford Companion to American Literature | 1995 | 471 words | Copyright

Herr, Michael (1940–), memoirist, novelist. Herr was a correspondent in Vietnam for Esquire magazine. In 1977 he published Dispatches, a spare and moving personal narrative considered one of the best accounts of combat by Americans in that war. Herr wrote the narration for the film Apocalypse Now and Walter Winchell: A Novel (1990), a fictional biography of the journalist famed in the 1930s and '40s, emphasizing his Jewishness and told in form of a screenplay.

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