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Philip Caputo shared a Pulitzer Prize in 1973, when he was a reporter for the Chicago Tribune. A Rumor of War, a memoir of his service during the Vietnam War as a marine lieutenant, has become a classic with more than two million copies sold since its publication in 1977. Philip Caputo's most recent novel is Acts of Faith. He is also the author of nine other books: Horn of Africa, DelCorso's Gallery, Indian Country, Means of Escape, Equation for Evil, Exiles, The Voyage, In the Shadows of the Morning, and Ghosts of Tsavo. He lives in Connecticut.

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Minneapolis Star Tribune, June 1, 2013
...of whom embraces her psychic powers and the other who pushes them away. (June) “The Longest Road,” by Philip Caputo. Novelist and journalist Caputo, his wife, and their two dogs acquire an Airstream trailer and head out across America, talking to...
Minneapolis Star Tribune, April 16, 2013
...blown apart in Baghdad in “Sgt. Wells’s New Skull.” In between are works by Michael Herr and Philip Caputo, writers who have defined defining the experiences of war. At least for me, the most profound of the pieces is Chris Jones’ National...
Bismarck Tribune, March 29, 2013
...com. n New: “The Longest Road: Overland in Search of America, from Key West to the Artic Ocean, “ Philip Caputo; “Indivisible? The story of the Second American Civil War,” Paul Martin Midden; “What My Dad Knew,” David Spickler, a North...
Yahoo! Finance, March 28, 2013
...and compassionate detail a single Army company from Fort Dix to South Vietnam, next to Pulitzer Prize winner Philip Caputo's enthralling account from 1980 of sneaking into Afghanistan during the Russian occupation ("A Rumor of Resistance"). Colby...
Scottrade, March 28, 2013
...and compassionate detail a single Army company from Fort Dix to South Vietnam, next to Pulitzer Prize winner Philip Caputo's enthralling account from 1980 of sneaking into Afghanistan during the Russian occupation ("A Rumor of Resistance"). Colby...
PublishersWeekly.com, February 17, 2013
...At your trips outset, you posed the question, What holds America together? What did you discover? Most of the [stories] we discovered were fairly original: a farmwoman from Missouri, for example, told us that she thought the belief that we have a lot...
Homer News, January 9, 2013
...a shrapnel wound from a grenade attack. Part of a generation of Vietnam War veteran writers that includes Philip Caputo, Joe Haldeman and Karl Marlantes, O'Brien was one of the first combat vets to write about the war. His memoir, "If I Die in a Combat...
Mississauga News, June 7, 2013
...while Matthew Bennett also recorded a pair of goals. Brandon Robinson, Luke Van Schepen, Wayne McCann, Tyler Ferreira, Philip Caputo, Dylan Webster and Dawson McKenzie also scored for Brampton. The Jr. A Tomahawks will host the Excelsiors tomorrow...
Individual.com, June 3, 2013
...whom embraces her psychic powers and the other who pushes them away. (June) "The Longest Road," by Philip Caputo. Novelist and journalist Caputo, his wife, and their two dogs acquire an Airstream trailer and head out across America, talking to people,...
Minneapolis Star Tribune, June 1, 2013
...of whom embraces her psychic powers and the other who pushes them away. (June) “The Longest Road,” by Philip Caputo. Novelist and journalist Caputo, his wife, and their two dogs acquire an Airstream trailer and head out across America, talking to...
Minneapolis Star Tribune, June 1, 2013
...of whom embraces her psychic powers and the other who pushes them away. (June) “The Longest Road,” by Philip Caputo. Novelist and journalist Caputo, his wife, and their two dogs acquire an Airstream trailer and head out across America, talking to...
World News Network, May 31, 2013
...fatigue, has been memorably depicted in fiction—from Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway" to William Wharton's "Birdy" to Philip Caputo's "Indian Country." Yet because these books are works of imagination, the illness has a tendency to transform into a...
The Plain Dealer, May 4, 2013
...a handful of activists orchestrated every event leading to the attack by Ohio National Guardsmen on the students. Philip Caputo’s 2005 book, “13 Seconds,” characterized the student demonstrations as “a collective tantrum,” Hayden said, and...
Cleveland Live, May 4, 2013
...a handful of activists orchestrated every event leading to the attack by Ohio National Guardsmen on the students. Philip Caputo’s 2005 book, “13 Seconds,” characterized the student demonstrations as “a collective tantrum,” Hayden said, and...