12 Facts About Gustav Hasford

Jerry Gustave Hasford, known under his pen name Gustav Hasford, was an American novelist, journalist and poet.

Gustav Hasford was a United States Marine Corps veteran, who served as a war correspondent during the Vietnam War.

Gustav Hasford had works published in magazines and anthologies such as Space and Time and Damon Knight's Orbit series.

Gustav Hasford published the poem "Bedtime Story" in a 1972 edition of Winning Hearts and Minds, the first anthology of writing about the war by veterans.

In 1978, Gustav Hasford attended the Milford Writer's Workshop and met veteran science fiction author Frederik Pohl, who was then an editor at Bantam Books.

At Pohl's suggestion, Gustav Hasford submitted The Short-Timers, and Pohl promptly bought it for Bantam.

In 1985, Gustav Hasford had borrowed 98 books from the Sacramento, California, public library but never returned them.

Gustav Hasford had obtained borrowing privileges at Cal Poly-SLO as a California resident, using the residential address of a motel near campus and a false Social Security number.

On January 4,1989, Gustav Hasford was sentenced to six months' imprisonment and promised to pay $1,100 in restitution from the royalties of his future works.

Gustav Hasford was ordered to pay the shipping costs for the return of 748 books to nine libraries throughout the United States.

The sequel was intended to be the second installment of a "Vietnam Trilogy", but Gustav Hasford died before writing the third installment.

Gustav Hasford is interred at Winston Memorial Cemetery in Haleyville, Alabama.