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Philip Caputo

Philip Caputo is the critically-acclaimed author of 10 books, including his national bestseller, “A Rumor of War.” 

In 1965, as an infantry lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps, Caputo was deployed toVietnam.  After serving three years in the Corps, he 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 inItaly, the Soviet Union and theMiddle East. 

In 1973 he was part of a writing team at the Chicago Tribune that won the  Pulitzer Prize for reporting on election fraud.

Four years later, “A Rumor of War” – a memoir of his service during the Vietnam War – was published. “Rumor of War” has since been hailed as a classic of modern literature, with several million copies sold since its publication in 1977.  Caputo’s most recent novel is “Crossers.” He is also the author of “Acts of Faith,” “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.”

Caputo appeared with the National Writers Series in November 2010 as the guest interviewer for Karl Marlantes, author of “Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War.”