![]() ![]() At the age of 30, he won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on the war. In 1963, he received a George Polk Award for his reporting at The New York Times, including his eyewitness account of the self-immolation of Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Ðức. While there, he gathered material for his book The Making of a Quagmire: America and Vietnam during the Kennedy Era. In the mid-1960s, Halberstam covered the Civil Rights Movement for The New York Times. ![]() In the late 1950s and early 1960s, writing for The Tennessean in Nashville, Tennessee, he covered the beginnings of the American Civil Rights Movement. He started his career writing for the Daily Times Leader in West Point, Mississippi. He graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor of arts in 1955, and also served as managing editor of the University's daily newspaper, The Harvard Crimson. Halberstam was of European-Jewish ancestry and was raised in the Bronx, New York, and in Winsted, Connecticut (he was a classmate of Ralph Nader). David Halberstam was an American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author known for his early work on the Vietnam War, his work on politics, history, business, media, American culture, and his later sports journalism. ![]()
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