Halberstam Dies in Car Crash

Prize-winning writer who blended journalism with history was 73

By News Dude, Newser Staff

Posted Apr 23, 2007 10:36 PM CDT

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Halberstam Dies in Car Crash — Journalist and author David Halberstam is shown in his Manhattan office in this May 14, 1993 file photo. Halberstam, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author who chronicled the Washington press corps, the Vietnam War generation and baseball, was killed in a car crash early Monday, April 23, 2007 a coroner said.... (Associated Press)

David Halberstam, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who wrote definitive annals of everything from the Vietnam War to pro football, was killed in a car crash in Menlo Park, Calif., today. Halberstam, who wrote 21 books, was on his way to interview former New York Giants quarterback Y.A. Tittle when the car he was riding in was broadsided.

Halberstam won the Pulitzer for his war reporting at 30 and soon cemented his reputation in long-form journalism, alternating subjects between history and sports. He was most widely known for "The Best and the Brightest," a paradigm-shifting account of the Vietnam War, and was wrapping up a book about the Korean War when he died. (More David Halberstam stories.)

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