Michael Herr

1940–2016 · American war correspondent, screenwriter

Michael David Herr was an American writer and war correspondent, known as the author of Dispatches (1977), a memoir of his time as a correspondent for Esquire (1967–1969) during the Vietnam War. The book was called "the best book to have been written about the Vietnam War" by fellow author C.D.B. Bryan in his review for 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."

Michael Herr, in order

1. 1979 Apocalypse Now: wrote · directed by Francis Ford Coppola · critics 91%, audiences 94% · streaming on Paramount+
2. 1987 Full Metal Jacket: wrote · directed by Stanley Kubrick · critics 84%, audiences 94% · streaming on fuboTV, HBO Max, MGM+
3. 2001 Apocalypse Now Redux: wrote · directed by Francis Ford Coppola · critics 93%, audiences 91% · streaming on Paramount+