Philip Caputo

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Philip Caputo (born June 10, 1941) is an American author and journalist. He is best-known for A Rumor of War, a best-selling memoir of his experiences during the Vietnam War.

Caputo was born in Westchester, Illinois and attended Fenwick High School and Loyola University Chicago. He now resides in Norwalk, Connecticut and Patagonia, Arizona.

In 1965, as an infantry lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps, he was deployed to South Vietnam. He returned to the U.S. in 1966.

After serving three years in the Corps, Caputo began a career in journalism, joining the staff of the Chicago Tribune. Caputo returned to Vietnam as a foreign correspondent for the Tribune. He covered the fall of Saigon in 1975, and he served in Italy, the Soviet Union, and the Middle East.

In 1972, Caputo was part of a writing team that won the Pulitzer Prize for reporting on election fraud in Chicago.

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Books by Philip Caputo

A Rumor of War (1977)
Horn of Africa (1980)
Delcorso's Gallery (1983)
Indian Country (1987)
Means of Escape (1991)
Equation for Evil (1996)
Exiles (1997)
The Voyage (1999)
Ghosts of Tsavo: stalking the mystery lions of East Africa (2002)
Means of Escape: A War Correspondent's Memoir of Life and Death in Afghanistan, the Middle East, and Vietnam (2002)
In the Shadows of the Morning: Essays On Wild Lands, Wild Waters, and a Few Untamed People (2004)
Acts of Faith (2005)
Ten Thousand Days of Thunder: A History of the Vietnam War (2005)
13 Seconds: A Look Back at the Kent State Shootings (2005)