Michael Herr
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American war correspondent, screenwriter (1940-2016)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 13 Apr 1940
- Died
- 23 Jun 2016
- Works
- 15
Top works
- We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow
- C'était Kubrick
- Kubrick
- Schachtafelen der Gesundheyt
- Kubrick
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 10
- Total plays
- 83
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Moderated estimation of fold change and dispersion for RNA-seq data with DESeq2
· 2014 · cited 85,293x
- Gene set enrichment analysis: A knowledge-based approach for interpreting genome-wide expression profiles
· 2005 · cited 47,753x
- Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure
· 1976 · cited 43,862x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 41,509x
- Comparison of simple potential functions for simulating liquid water
· 1983 · cited 38,972x
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Quotes
- “There was such a dense concentration of energy there [Vietnam], American and essentially adolescent, if that energy could have been channeled into anything more than noise, waste and pain it would have lighted up Indochina for a thousand years.”
- “I think that Vietnam is what we had instead of happy childhoods.”
- “War stories aren't really anything more than stories about people anyway.”
- “Vietnam, Vietnam, Vietnam, we've all been there.”
- “Soldier: You guys aught to do a story on me suntahm.Herr: Why should we do a story about you?Soldier: 'Cause I'm so fuckin' good, 'n' that ain' no shit, neither. Got me one hunnert 'n' fifty-se'en gooks kilt. 'N' fifty caribou. Them're all certified.”
- “Mal Hombre: God damn it, Sergeant. I thought you were a professional soldier.Sergeant: I waited as long as I could, Sir. Any longer, and I was gonna lose my man.Mal Hombre: This outfit is perfectly capable of taking care of its own dirty laundry. Is that clear, Sergeant?Sergeant: Colonel, since when is a wounded trooper 'dirty laundry'?”
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- date of birth
- 1940-04-13
- date of death
- 2016-06-24
- birth name
- Michael David Herr
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Categories
1940 births2016 deaths20th-century American journalists20th-century American male journalists20th-century American male writers21st-century American JewsAmerican BuddhistsAmerican male non-fiction writersAmerican male screenwritersAmerican postmodern writersAmerican war correspondents of the Vietnam WarConverts to Buddhism from JudaismJewish American journalistsJournalists from New York (state)Nottingham High School (New York) alumniScreenwriters from New York (state)Writers from Lexington, KentuckyWriters from Syracuse, New York