Ward Just resources

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Ward Just resources on the Web

Jorn Barger Sept 2000

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1935: born (father was 3rd-generation publisher of Waukegan (IL) News-Sun)

1940s: Illinois horsemeat scandal [anecdote]

1945: first wants to be writer

1961-62: Washington DC

1963-64: covers Cyprus war for Newsweek

1964? Newsweek's London bureau

Washington Post

1968? sent to Vietnam by Ben Bradlee [cite]

1966? or 69? takes 30+ pieces of shrapnel from a grenade while on patrol with the 101st Airborne, declines to be evacuated until the dozens of enlisted men wounded in the action were airlifted out [cite] [memoir]

marries Sarah Catchpole

1976: reviews Westmoreland book in NYT [review]

1977: Michael Herr's "Dispatches" depicts WJ's 1966 heroism [WJ quote]

1984: NYT piece on baseball [quote]

1985: O Henry Award [cite]

1989: reviews Russell Baker in NYT [review]

1995: party honoring WJ attended by Bill Clinton [passim]

1998: tribute essay in Virginia Quarterly [blurb]

1998: comments on Clinton-Lewinsky [French language]

1999: reviews Max Frankel in NYT [review]

2000: how he wrote his first play [account] [NYT reg req]

2000: intro to "Reporting Vietnam" [Amazon] [review]

1999 interview

1998 short memoir

living in Martha's Vineyard

NYTimes: links

publisher page

profile

[There are about as many pages on the Web with the word 'ward' coincidentally followed by the word 'just' as there are pages with his actual name.] [search]

Books

To What End: Report From Vietnam (1968 nonfiction)

[Amazon]

Reviews: NYT

Reissue 2000 reviews: Boston, PublicAffairs

Military Men (nonfiction? 1970)

Reviews: NYT

The Congressman Who Loved Flaubert (stories 1973)

[Amazon] ditto

Reviews: NYT, Salon

Stringer (1974)

Reviews: NYT

Nicholson at Large (1975)

Reviews: NYT

A Family Trust (1978)

Reviews: NYT

Honor, Power, Riches, Fame, and the Love of Women (1979)

Reviews: NYT

In the City of Fear (1982)

Reviews: NYT

The American Blues (1984)

Reviews: NYT

The American Ambassador (1987)

Reviews: NYT

Jack Gance (1989)

about Chicago, the Machine and what makes the political world go round

[Amazon]

Reviews: NYT

essay

Twenty-One (stories 1990)

Reviews: NYT

The Translator (1991)

bleak, Paris 1950s-1980s

[Amazon]

Reviews: NYT

Ambition & Love (1994)

Reviews: NYT

Echo House (1997)

[Amazon] hardbound

National Book Award finalist

First chapter: Charlotte, Real

Extract: CJR

Interview: PBS, NYT

Review: Knight-Ridder, NYT, Hartford, Milwaukee, Salon pan

A Dangerous Friend (1999)

[Amazon] hardbound audio

Best of 1999: Time-Asia

First chapter: NYT, Philly, Charlotte, quote/synopsis

Interview: NYT RealAud, Boston

Reviews: SF, Oregon, Gambit, Knight-Ridder, AP, zbig, Rothenberg

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