On June 13, 1965, he married Elzbieta Tehizevska, an actress he met while he was assigned to the Times bureau in Warsaw. In 1964 David Halberstam won a Pulitzer Prize for his international reporting of the early years of the Vietnam War, including the 1963 overthrow of South Vietnamese leader Ngo Dinh Diem. Although fiction, his first book The Noblest Roman was based on actual events which occurred in West Point, Mississippi.

He graduated in 1955 with a degree in journalism and took his first job in West Point, Mississippi, at the Daily Times Leader. After high school, David Halberstam attended Harvard University where he became the managing editor of the Daily Harvard Crimson. (In 1980, Michael Halberstam was shot in his home and killed by an intruder). His older brother Michael became a well-known cardiologist in Washington. Halberstam’s father was a surgeon, and his mother was a teacher. His parents were Charles and Blanche Halberstam. David Halberstam was born on April 10, 1934, in New York. He is one of the nation’s most famous authors. The Noblest Roman (1961) (set in West Point, Mississippi)ĭavid Halberstam is a marvelous figure in American journalism.The Unfinished Odyssey of Robert Kennedy (1969).Baseball: The Perfect Game (with Peter Richmond, and Danielle Weil) 1992.The Amateurs:The Story of Four Young Men and Their Quest for an Olympic Gold Medal (1996).ESPN Sport Century (with Chris Berman, and Michael MacCambridge) 1999.Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan And The World He Made (1999).Firehouse (2002) (about firemen involved in 9/11 tragedy).Defining a Nation: Our America and the Source of Its Strength (2003).The Teammates: A Portrait of Friendship (2003).The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War (2007).Everything They Had: Sportswriting from David Halberstam (May 8, 2008).MAJOR WORKS BIOGRAPHY REVIEWS RELATED WEBSITES BIBLIOGRAPHY Major Works

The Amateurs by David Halberstam