| LC control no. | n 00022836 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Herr, Michael, 1940-2016 |
| Located | Syracuse (N.Y.) |
| Birth date | 1940-04-13 |
| Death date | 2016-06-23 |
| Place of birth | Lexington (Ky.) |
| Place of death | Delaware County (N.Y.) |
| Field of activity | Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Journalists Journalism Motion picture authorship Motion picture plays |
| Profession or occupation | Authors War correspondents Screenwriters Journalists |
| Found in | Herr, Michael. Kubrick, 2000: CIP t.p. (Michael Herr) Phone call to publisher Grove Press, 02-29-00 (Michael Herr; b. 04-13-1940) The rainmaker, c1998 credits (narration by Michael Herr) Wikipedia, Dec. 12, 2007 (Michael Herr; b. 1940, Syracuse, N.Y.; writer and former war correspondent, best known as the author of Dispatches; screenwriter) New York times WWW site, viewed June 27, 2016 (in obituary published June 24: Michael Herr; b. Michael David Herr, Apr. 13, 1940, Lexington, Ky.; was still an infant when his parents moved the family to Syracuse; d. Thursday [June 23, 2016], Delaware County, N.Y., aged 76; wrote Dispatches, a glaringly intense, personal account of being a correspondent in Vietnam that is widely viewed as one of the most visceral and persuasive depictions of the unearthly experience of war; contributed the narration to Apocalypse now, Francis Ford Coppola's epic adaptation of Joseph Conrad's Heart of darkness, and with the director Stanley Kubrick and Gustav Hasford wrote the screenplay for Full metal jacket) |
| Associated language | eng |
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