From PBS's American Experience "Vietnam Online" profile of Larry Heinemann (selected as an underrated writer by Sam of Golden Rule Jones):
Larry Heinemann served in the U.S. Army in Vietnam in 1967-68. He has published three novels, including Paco's Story which won the National Book Award. His short stories and nonfiction have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Playboy, TriQuarterly, and numerous other magazines and journals. He has read, lectured, and taught at writers' workshops, universities, and veterans' gatherings in the U.S., Vietnam, England, China, and the former Soviet Union. Mr. Heinemann has also written a nonfiction book about train travel in contemporary Vietnam.
More about Larry Heinemann
+ Golden Rule Jones' audio review of Heinemann's Black Virgin Mountain
+ A conversation with Heinemann
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