Michael Herr
Michael Herr
Michael David Herrwas an American writer and war correspondent, known as the author of Dispatches, a memoir of his time as a correspondent for Esquire magazineduring 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMemoirist
Date of Birth13 April 1940
CountryUnited States of America