Michael David Herr (April 13, 1940 – June 23, 2016) was an American writer and war correspondent, known as the author of *Dispatches* (1977), a memoir of his time as a correspondent for *Esquire magazine* (1967–1969) during the Vietnam War. The book was called the best "to have been written about the Vietnam War" by *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." **Source**: [Michael Herr](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Herr) on Wikipedia.