Author

Books by Michael Herr

Michael Herr was an American journalist and screenwriter who covered Vietnam for Esquire from 1967 to 1969. After the war he suffered severe psychological effects that delayed completion of Dispatches for nearly a decade. He later co-wrote the narration for Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now (1979) and contributed to the screenplay for Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket (1987). Dispatches is his only book-length work of nonfiction. He also published a biographical essay on Walter Winchell and a memoir about Kubrick. Herr died in 2016.