Emerson, Gloria

GLORIA EMERSON covered Vietnam as a foreign correspondent for the New York Times from 1965 to 1972, for which she won the George Polk Award. She is also the author of Some American Men and Gaza: A Year in the Intifada both nonfiction works related to her Vietnam experience as well as a novel, Loving Graham Greene, about the writer she had admired since reading The Quiet American on her first trip to Saigon. She died in 2004.