NEW YORK — Michael Herr, the author and Oscar-nominated screenwriter who viscerally documented the ravages of the Vietnam War through his classic nonfiction novel Dispatches and through such films as ...

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 was ...

Michael Herr, the Vietnam War reporter who wrote Dispatches and helped pen the screenplays for Full Metal Jacket and Apocalypse Now, died of a long illness near his home in upstate New York on ...

Michael Herr’s influence as a writer is significant enough that one needn’t be aware of it to be subject to it. I wasn’t. Not as a young tank crewman watching Apocalypse Now in a rented trailer near ...

American author and journalist Michael Herr, best known for exposing the harsh realities of the Vietnam War in his seminal memoir "Dispatches," has died in New York. He was 76. Michael Herr died in a ...

Michael Herr, author of “Dispatches,” the acclaimed nonfiction novel that shed light on the devastation caused by the Vietnam War in the 1970s, died Thursday in New York after a lengthy illness. He ...

Oscar nominated-writer Michael Herr died Thursday in New York. He was 76. Herr’s publisher Knopf confirmed that the writer had died in a New York hospital after battling a lengthy illness, The ...

Michael Herr, the author and Oscar-nominated screenplay writer who viscerally documented the ravages of the Vietnam War through his classic nonfiction novel “Dispatches” and through such films as ...

Michael Herr, author of the heralded Vietnam War memoir Dispatches and Oscar-nominated contributor to two classic film chronicles of the conflict — Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now and Stanley ...