PHILIP CAPUTO: AUTHOR, WAR REPORTER & FORMER KEY WESTER, DIES AT 84

Philip Caputo, Pulitzer Prize-winning Tribune investigative reporter and bestselling author, dies at 84

The onetime foreign correspondent's 1977 memoir, “A Rumor of War,” laid bare his searing experiences as a Marine Corps lieutenant in Vietnam.

Philip Caputo, 'A Rumor of War' author whose whose Vietnam War memoir became a classic, has died at 84

The ex-Marine described what he saw and experienced right down to the humps boots make in body bags. He grew up in Westchester, graduated from Fenwick High School and Loyola University and reported for the Chicago Tribune before going on to be a successful author.

Philip Caputo, Author of Definitive Vietnam Memoir, Dies at 84

Philip Caputo, whose unflinching Vietnam memoir A Rumor of War became a touchstone of American war literature, died Thursday at his home in Norwalk, Conn. He was 84, reports the New York Times . His son Marc said in a statement on Facebook that the cause was cancer. A former Marine...

PHILIP CAPUTO: AUTHOR, WAR REPORTER & FORMER KEY WESTER, DIES AT 84

By Marc Caputo Philip Caputo never wanted it to end this way: peacefully and in his own home. He hoped to die in the manner in which he lived — dramatically and with panache — as a writer, adventurer, warrior, sportsman, and raconteur. But cancer claimed him in his bed at home in Norwalk, Connecticut […]

'A Rumor of War' author Philip Caputo dies

WASHINGTON, United States — Former journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winner Philip Caputo, best known for his memoirs as a US Marine officer in the Vietnam War, has died, his son said. He was 84.

Philip Caputo, who wrote blistering Vietnam War memoir, dies at 84

Philip Caputo wrote in “A Rumor of War” that his book was about “the things men do in war and the things war does to them.”