John Sack
is a founder of literary journalism, the one new literary form of the twentieth
century.
He has been a journalist for fifty-five years. He was a newspaper reporter in North and South America, Europe, Africa and Asia, a contributor to Harper’s, The Atlantic and The New Yorker, a contributing editor of Esquire, a writer, producer, and special correspondent for CBS News and its bureau chief in Spain, a war correspondent in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Yugoslavia and Afghanistan, and the author of ten nonfiction books like M ("Great reportage," The New York Times). He now gives speeches about The Dragonhead and An Eye for an Eye.
John Sack died at 7 pm PST Saturday, March 27, 2004.
For a complete obituary go to:
http://www.esquire.com/features/articles/2004/040330_mfe_obit.html