Philip Caputo
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| Born | June 10, 1941 |
| Alma mater | Loyola University Chicago |
| Occupation | Author, journalist |
| Website | www |
Philip Caputo (born June 10, 1941) is an American author and journalist. He is best known for A Rumor of War (1977), a best-selling memoir of his experiences during the Vietnam War. Caputo has written 16 books, including two memoirs, five books of general nonfiction, and eight novels. His latest is the novel "Hunter's Moon" which was published in 2019 by Henry Holt.[1]
Early life and career[]
Philip Caputo was born in Westchester, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, and raised in Berwyn and Westchester. He attended Fenwick High School and Loyola University Chicago, graduating with a B.A. in English in 1964. From 1965–1966 Caputo served in the Republic of Vietnam (RVN) as an infantry lieutenant (platoon commander) in the United States Marine Corps. Caputo served in combat and earned several medals and awards upon completion of his tour of duty.
After serving three years in the Corps, Caputo began a career in journalism, joining the staff of the Chicago Tribune in 1968. In 1973, Caputo was part of a writing team that won the Pulitzer Prize for reporting on election fraud in Chicago. For the next five years, he was a foreign correspondent for the Tribune. He covered the fall of Saigon in 1975, and he worked in Italy, the Soviet Union and the Middle East.[2] In 1975 he was shot and wounded in the ankle by a militiaman with an AK-47 during the Battle of the Hotels in Lebanon.[3][4]
Books and articles[]
Philip Caputo's memoir of Vietnam, A Rumor of War (1977), has been published in 15 languages, and has sold two million copies since its first publication. It is widely regarded as a classic in the literature of war. The book was adapted as a 1980 two-part TV movie of the same name, starring Brad Davis, Keith Carradine, Brian Dennehy, and Michael O'Keefe. A Fortieth Anniversary Edition of A Rumor of War was scheduled for summer 2017.[5]
In 2013 he published a travel/adventure memoir The Longest Road: Overland in Search of America From Key West to the Arctic Ocean.[1] Some Rise By Sin (2017), his 16th book, is a novel about an American missionary priest struggling to save his Mexican parish from the ravages of a drug cartel.[6]
In addition to books, Caputo has published dozens of major magazine articles, reviews, and op-ed pieces in publications ranging from The New York Times, The Boston Globe, and The Washington Post to Esquire, National Geographic, and the Virginia Quarterly Review.[7]
Lecturing and television[]
Caputo has lectured at approximately 20 universities and prep schools around the country, and has been a featured speaker for the , the American Library Association, and the American Publishers Association. He has participated in the Key West Literary Seminar, , Chicago Humanities Festival, and the Cheltenham Literary Festival in Cheltenham, England.
He has also worked as a screenwriter for Paramount Pictures and Michael Douglas Productions. Caputo has been a guest on the Charlie Rose Show and the Today Show. He has narrated or appeared in several TV documentaries on the Vietnam War, the Cold War, and other subjects.[2]
Bibliography[]
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Fiction[]
- Horn of Africa. 1980.
- Delcorso's Gallery (1983)
- Indian Country (1987)
- Equation for Evil (1996)
- Exiles (1997)
- The Voyage (1999)
- Acts of Faith (2005) ISBN 0375411666
- Crossers (2009)
- Some Rise by Sin (2017) ISBN 978-1627794749
- Hunter's Moon (2019) ISBN 9781627794763
Non–fiction[]
- Ghosts of Tsavo (2002)
- In the Shadows of the Morning (2002)
- 13 Seconds: A Look Back At the Kent State Shootings (2005) ISBN 1596090804
- Ten Thousand Days of Thunder (2005)
- "The border of madness". The Atlantic. 304 (5): 62–69. December 2009.[8]
- Memoir
- A Rumor of War (1977) ISBN 003017631X OCLC 2974701
- Means of Escape[9] (1991) ISBN 0060183128 OCLC 23732376
- The Longest Road (2013) ISBN 978-1250048745
Filmography[]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b World Archipelago. "Philip Caputo". Macmillan.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "About Phil". Philip Caputo.
- ^ "To save lives, shrink gun magazines". Washington Post.
- ^ Pierre Tristam (June 26, 2011). "Middle East: Beirut's St. Georges Hotel, Still Trying to Slay Dragons". About.com.
- ^ "A Rumor of War - Philip Caputo". Philip Caputo. Retrieved January 14, 2017.
- ^ "Some Rise by Sin - Philip Caputo". Philip Caputo. Retrieved January 14, 2017.
- ^ "Selected Articles". Philip Caputo.
- ^ Online version is titled "The fall of Mexico".
- ^ "All Books". Philip Caputo.
External links[]
- Philip Caputo official website, including article and book links, reviews, interviews, FAQs
- Philip Caputo's papers at Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center[permanent dead link]
- Interview of Philip Caputo by Charlie Rose (2005)
- Review of Crossers by William T. Vollmann
- Interview on Acts of Faith at the Pritzker Military Library
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- Interview with Philip Caputo by Stephen McKiernan, Binghamton University Libraries Center for the Study of the 1960s, December 12, 2009
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