1. Ward Just was a war correspondent and the author of 19 novels and numerous short stories.
12 Facts About Ward Just
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Ward Just started his career as a print journalist for the Waukegan News-Sun.
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Ward Just died of complications from Lewy body dementia in Plymouth, Massachusetts, on December 19,2019.
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Ward Just covered the war in Cyprus and the conflict in the Dominican Republic for Newsweek.
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Ward Just published close to 400 articles, many appearing on the front page.
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Ward Just met journalist Frances Fitzgerald at a party soon after her arrival in Saigon in early 1966 and began a relationship with her that continued until she left South Vietnam in November 1966.
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Ward Just was wounded on 8 June 1966 covering Operation Hawthorne, but returned to Saigon for a second tour after recovering in Washington, DC Leaving Saigon in May 1967, he wrote "To What End: Report from Vietnam," credited as being an important element in helping the nation understand the futility of that war.
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Ward Just went on to cover the presidential campaigns of both Eugene McCarthy and Richard Nixon for the Post in 1968 and was then asked to join its editorial board.
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Ward Just's novel An Unfinished Season was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2005.
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Ward Just's novel Echo House was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1997.
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Ward Just was twice a finalist for the O Henry Award, in 1985 for his short story About Boston, and again in 1986 for his short story The Costa Brava, 1959.
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Ward Just's fiction is often concerned with the influence of national politics on Americans' personal lives.