Gustav Hasford
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A native of Russellville, Alabama, he entered the United States Marine Corps in 1966, serving as a combat correspondent in Vietnam and later refining his craft at the Clarion Workshop and the Milford Writer’s Workshop. His semi-autobiographical novel The Short-Timers (1979) became a bestseller, earned a Navy & Marine Corps Achievement Medal with Valor Device for his wartime reporting, and was tran…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources