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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
NEIL SHEEHAN was born in Holyoke, Massachusetts, in 1936. He majored in history at Harvard and graduated cum laude in 1958. He then enlisted in the U.S. Army, was an Army journalist in Korea and Japan, and first went to Vietnam in 1962 to cover the war for United Press International. In 1964 he became a reporter for The New York Times, where he won a number of awards. After working on the newspaper’s metropolitan staff and as its correspondent in Indonesia, he returned to Vietnam in 1965.
In 1966, he was transferred to the Washington bureau of the Times, where he served successively as Pentagon correspondent, White House correspondent, and investigative reporter assigned to political, military, and diplomatic affairs. In 1971, he obtained the Pentagon Papers, which brought the Times the Pulitzer Prize Gold Medal for meritorious public service.
Also the author of The Arnheiter Affair, A Bright Shining Lie, which won the National Book Award as well as the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction, and A Fiery Peace in a Cold War, Neil Sheehan is married to Susan Sheehan, the writer. They live in Washington, D.C.
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