Biography
Seymour Myron Hersh is an American investigative journalist and political writer. He gained recognition in 1969 for exposing the My Lai massacre and its cover-up during the Vietnam War, for which he received the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting. During the 1970s, Hersh covered the Watergate scandal for The New York Times, also reporting on the secret U.S. bombing of Cambodia and the Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) program of domestic spying. In 2004, he detailed the U.S. military's torture and abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib in Iraq for The New Yorker. Hersh has won five George Polk Awards and two National Magazine Awards. He is the author of 11 books, including The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House (1983), an account of the career of Henry Kissinger that won the National Book Critics Circle Award.
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Awards & recognition
- Sam Adams Award · 2017
- Manuel Vázquez Montalbán Award — Cultural and Political Journalism · 2007
- Manuel Vázquez Montalbán Awards · 2007
- Carey McWilliams Award · 2005
- Preis für die Freiheit und Zukunft der Medien · 2005
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- Weintal Prize — Diplomatic Reporting · 2005
- George Polk Award · 2004
- LennonOno Grant — Peace · 2004
- Orwell Award · 2004
- The Hillman Prize — Book Journalism · 1984
- National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction · 1983
- George Polk Award · 1981
- The Hillman Prize — Newspaper Journalism · 1975
- George Polk Award · 1974
- George Polk Award · 1973
- Pulitzer Prize — International Reporting · 1970
- George Polk Award · 1969
- Worth Bingham Prize · 1969
- James Aronson Award
