Ward Just

Ward Swift Just (September 5, 1935 – December 19, 2019) was an American writer. He was a war correspondent and the author of 17 novels and many short stories. He was born in Michigan City, Indiana. Benjamin Bradlee hired Just at The Washington Post as a war correspondent for the Vietnam war. His novel An Unfinished Season was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2005. His novel Echo House was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1997.

Just died on December 19, 2019 in Plymouth, Massachusetts of problems caused by Lewy body dementia, aged 84.Ward Just Helped Define a New Era in Journalism

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Other websites

Houghton Mifflin author page for Ward Just 
Perseus Books Group author page for Ward Just 
Ward Just resources on the Web 
Ward Just's Washington  by Michael Nelson, published in The Virginia Quarterly Review

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