July 31, 2014
Jay Edward Maeder, Jr., the newspaper columnist and editor and comic strip writer, died of cancer July 29 at age 67. He wrote the “Jay Maeder's People” column for The Miami Herald and later was…
December 28, 2013
The Pritzker Military Library and Museum in Chicago's Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing honors "writers whose work adds to the public’s understanding of military history and the role played by the military…
November 6, 2013
The unique thing about discovering Michael Herr's Vietnam War tale, Dispatches (272 pp., 1977) in a used-book venue was the cover---it really catches the eye. Citing in bold lettering no less than John Le Carre's…
June 19, 2013
Beverly Deepe Keever spent more than seven years as a magazine and newspaper correspondent covering the war in Vietnam. She arrived in 1962 at age twenty-six as a free-lance reporter after having received her MA…
November 7, 2012
The Danish journalist Karl Eskelund (above, with his wife and daughter), who died in 1972, wrote a series of books in the 1950s and 1960s reporting on his travels to exotic places around the world.…
August 29, 2012
Malcolm W. Browne, the former Associated Press and New York Times Vietnam War correspondent best known for taking a much-reproduced 1963 photograph of a Buddhist monk immolating himself on the streets of Saigon, died August 27 at age 81…
August 16, 2012
Iver Peterson, a retired New York Times reporter and former Vietnam War correspondent, died August 1 following treatment for acute myelogenic leukemia. He was 70 years old. After graduating from Harvard in 1964, Peterson went to work…
May 7, 2012
The acclaimed journalist and novelist Bill Granger died April 22 at the Manteno Veterans Home in Illinois. Granger, 70, who served in the U.S. Army from 1963-65, died of heart failure. Granger was born…
May 4, 2012
John Steinbeck died shortly after he produced the contents of Steinbeck in Vietnam: Dispatches from the War (University of Virginia Press, 216 pp., $29.95), a book that is composed of columns he wrote for Newsday while he…
March 14, 2012
In a wide-ranging interview on the website The Browser, Martin Bell (above ), the long-time BBC war correspondent who has covered more than a dozen conflicts, including the American war in Vietnam, discusses five…