1. William Pfaff was an American author, op-ed columnist for the International Herald Tribune and frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books.
12 Facts About William Pfaff
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William Pfaff grew up in Iowa and Georgia and graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1949, having majored in literary and political studies.
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Thanks to a letter of recommendation from Frank O'Malley, an English professor at Notre Dame, William Pfaff obtained a job working for the lay-Catholic Commonweal magazine in 1949.
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William Pfaff served in infantry and Special Forces units of the United States Army during and after the Korean War.
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The Korean Armistice Agreement was signed while William Pfaff was on a cruise ship and so he never saw action.
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William Pfaff was honorably discharged with the rank of staff sergeant.
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William Pfaff returned to Commonweal as an assistant editor and in 1955 for extensive travel in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.
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In 1971, William Pfaff added a fourth book, this time without Stillman's co-authorship, entitled Condemned to Freedom.
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William Pfaff was honored by being a finalist for the 1989 National Book Award, and in the years that followed, he became a much sought-after lecturer throughout the world.
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About the same time, William Pfaff published a book about the appeal of revolutionary violence in the 20th century, The Bullet's Song.
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In 2010, William Pfaff published his last book, The Irony of Manifest Destiny.
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William Pfaff is buried in Paris, in Pere Lachaise cemetery.