Philip Caputo is the author of "A Rumor of War," a memoir of his personal experiences in Vietnam.
In 1965, Caputo, then a lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps, deployed to South Vietnam. He returned to the states in 1966.
After three years in the Corps, Caputo began a career in journalism, joining the staff of The Chicago Tribune. Caputo returned to Vietnam as a foreign correspondent for the Tribune. He covered the fall of Saigon in 1975, and he served in Italy, The Soviet Union, and the Middle East.
In 1972, Caputo was part of a writing team that won the Pulitzer Prize for reporting on election fraud in Chicago.