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Gustav Hasford was born in 1947, in Russelville, Alabama. He joined the Marines in 1967 and fought in the Vietnam War as a combat correspondent. After he returned he wrote the semi-autobiographical novel The Short-Timers about his experience and followed it up with the sequel The Phantom Blooper. His final novel was a detective story called A Gypsy Good Time. He died of a heart-attack in 1993, in Ithaca, Greece.
The Short-Timers was made into the movie Full Metal Jacket, directed by Stanley Kubrick. Hasford wrote the screenplay together with Kubrick and Michael Herr.
Quotations
"My work remains a personal statement--I speak for no groups or social factions. I have no goals beyond the completion of my next story. The praise I seek from my readers is that they finish my books. After being alternately damned and praised for equally invalid reasons, I am content to trade fame for accuracy of interpretation. Fame, for a writer, is like being a dancing bear with a little hat on your head." - Gustav Hasford
Source
http://www.gustavhasford.com
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