Philip Caputo

Philip Caputo is an American author and journalist. He is best-know for A Rumor of War, a best-selling memoir of his experiences during the Vietnam War. In 1965, Caputo, then an infantry lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps, deployed to South Vietnam. He returned to the states in 1966. After serving three years in the Corps, Caputo began a career in journalism, joining the staff of The Chicago Tribune. Caputo returned to Vietnam as a foreign correspondent for the Tribune. He covered the fall of Saigon in 1975, and he served in Italy, the Soviet Union, and the Middle East. In 1972, Caputo was part of a writing team that won the Pulitzer Prize for reporting on election fraud in Chicago.

Bibliography

Books by Philip Caputo
  • Rumor of War (1977)
  • Horn of Africa (1980)
  • Delcorso's Gallery (1983)
  • Indian Country (1987)
  • Means of Escape (1991)
  • Equation for Evil (1996)
  • Exiles (1997)
  • The Voyage (1999)
  • Means of Escape: A War Correspondent's Memoir of Life and Death in Afganistan, the Middle East, and Vietnam (2002)
  • In the Shadows of the Morning: Essays On Wild Lands, Wild Waters, and a Few Untamed People (2004)
  • Acts of Faith (2005)
* Ten Thousand Days of Thunder: A History of the Vietnam War (2005)

 

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