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Notable awards. American Academy of Arts and Letters. Ward Swift Just (September 5, 1935 – December 19, 2019) [1] was an American writer. He was a war correspondent and the author of 19 novels and numerous short stories.
20 dic 2019 · Ward Just, a journalist for whom the Vietnam War was both a personal trauma and a national tragedy, inspiring him to write novels about people whose lives are shaped by war, political intrigue,...
20 dic 2019 · Ward Just, a former journalist who helped rejuvenate an uninspiring Washington newspaper with his visceral dispatches from the Vietnam War, then gave up reporting to chronicle power, patriotism...
Ward Just, a journalist for whom the Vietnam War was both a personal trauma and a national tragedy, inspiring him to write novels about people whose lives are shaped by war, political intrigue, myopic diplomats and various forces beyond their control, died Thursday at a hospital in Plymouth, Massachusetts. He was 84.
6 gen 2020 · Ward Just, with his reporter’s eye guiding the spare elegance of his fiction, and William Greider, with his determination to convey truths that might not neatly fit the conventions of regular...
23 dic 2019 · Ward Just, an acclaimed journalist and author with roots in Waukegan, died at 84 on Thursday. He leaves behind a journalistic legacy that began in his early 20s when he was a reporter for his...
Project Description. Novel about Germans in the East. During his stay in Berlin, Just picked up the thread of two works he finished in 1987 and 1991: The American Ambassador and The Translator, and his novel The Weather in Berlin (2002), which examines the challenges faced by Americans abroad, resulted from his Academy fellowship.
