William Prochnau
William Walter Prochnau (August 9, 1937 – March 28, 2018)
Career
Prochnau was born in
Works
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 Booknotes interview with Prochnau on Once Upon a Distant War, January 14, 1996, C-SPAN |
Prochnau had two movies created from the works he wrote.:
He also wrote Once Upon a Distant War: David Halberstam, Neil Sheehan, Peter Arnett--Young War Correspondents and Their Early Vietnam Battles,[3] about the experiences of Halberstam, Sheehan, and Arnett reporting from Vietnam. On Halberstam's recommendation, he would later become a writer for Vanity Fair.
Awards and honors
Prochnau won an Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship[5] in 1988 to research and write about the media as it operated in the Vietnam War and its aftermath.
Personal life
Prochnau was married twice. His first marriage produced four children but ended in divorce. Prochnau's second marriage was to Laura Parker.
References
- ^ Who's Who in Entertainment. Third edition, 1998–1999. New Providence, NJ: Marquis Who's Who, 1997.
- ^ a b Silverman, Ellie (April 4, 2018). "William Prochnau, Vanity Fair journalist and best-selling author, dies at 80". Washington Post. Retrieved February 2, 2019.
- ^ a b c d "William Prochnau". Vanity Fair. Retrieved 25 April 2013.
- ^ a b "William Prochnau with Laura Parker". Curtis Brown. Retrieved 25 April 2013.
- ^ Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship
External links
- William Prochnau at IMDb
- Appearances on C-SPAN
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