| 词条 | Michael Herr |
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| name = Michael Herr | birth_name = Michael David Herr | birth_date = 13 April 1940 | birth_place = Lexington, Kentucky, U.S | death_place = Delhi, New York, U.S | death_date = {{Death date and age|2016|06|23|1940|04|13|df=yes}} | spouse = Valerie | relatives=Judy Bleyer, Amy Bleyer, Doran Kaufman | occupation = Writer, war correspondent | notable_works = Dispatches (1977) Apocalypse Now (1979) Full Metal Jacket(1987) }} Michael David Herr[1] (April 13, 1940 – June 23, 2016) was an American writer and war correspondent, known as the author of Dispatches (1977), a memoir of his time as a correspondent for Esquire magazine (1967–1969) during 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{{dubious|date=March 2015}} the literary genre of the nonfiction novel, along with authors such as Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, and Tom Wolfe. Life and careerHerr was born in Lexington, Kentucky, the son of a jeweler, and grew up in Syracuse, New York. His family was Jewish.[1] After working with Esquire in the 1960s, from 1971 to 1975 he published nothing. Then, in 1977, he went on the road with rock and roller Ted Nugent and wrote about the experience in a 1978 cover story for Crawdaddy magazine.[2] Also in 1977, he published Dispatches, upon which his reputation mostly rests. Herr contributed to the narration for Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now (1979). He co-wrote the screenplay for the film Full Metal Jacket (1987) with director Stanley Kubrick and author Gustav Hasford. That film was based on Hasford's novel The Short-Timers and the screenplay was nominated for an Academy Award. Herr collaborated with Richard Stanley in writing the original screenplay for the 1996 film The Island of Dr. Moreau based on the H.G. Wells novel of the same name. However, Stanley claims the subsequent rewrites cost Herr his writing credit, omitting most of the material created by the two writers. Herr wrote a pair of articles for Vanity Fair about Stanley Kubrick, which were later incorporated into the short book Kubrick (2000), a personal biography of the director. He declined to edit the script of Kubrick's last film Eyes Wide Shut (1999).[3] Herr lived with his wife Valerie in Delhi, New York, until his death on June 23, 2016, at the age of 76.[4] Publications
References1. ^1 {{Cite news|first=Adam|last=Bernstein|date=2016-06-24| url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/michael-herr-who-wrote-powerfully-about-vietnam-in-dispatches-dies-at-76/2016/06/24/ac9c0e58-3a2e-11e6-9ccd-d6005beac8b3_story.html | work=Washington Post|title=Vietnam War reporter Michael Herr, who helped write 'Apocalypse Now' and 'Full Metal Jacket,' dies at 76}} 2. ^{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1499&dat=19780322&id=5J8oAAAAIBAJ&sjid=hykEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3297,1015954 |title=Rock Beat |work= Milwaukee Journal |date= March 22, 1978}} 3. ^{{cite web|last=Herr |first=Michael |title=Kubrick |url=http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/classic/features/kubrick-199908 |website=Vanity Fair |accessdate=2012-06-02 |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/687Z4H738?url=http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/classic/features/kubrick-199908.print |archivedate=June 2, 2012 |date=August 1999 |deadurl=yes |df= }} 4. ^Michael Herr Dies: Dispatches Author & Full Metal Jacket Co-Writer Was 76 5. ^{{cite newspaper|author=Rascoe, Judith|title=Review of Walter Winchell: A Novel by Michael Herr|newspaper=NY Times|date=20 May 1990|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/05/20/books/american-gossip.html}} External links{{wikiquote}}
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