American novelist and journalist who wrote The Naked and the Dead and became one of the defining literary-intellectual personalities of postwar America — combative, egotistical, and prolific.
The Naked and the Dead: the finest American novel of WWII. The Armies of the Night: a brilliant New Journalism account of the 1967 Pentagon March — won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. The Executioner's Song: a quasi-fictional account of Gary Gilmore's execution — Pulitzer Prize. Miami and the Siege of Chicago: political journalism.
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