Neil Sheehan (
October 27,
1936 - ) as a
reporter for the
New York Times in
1971 obtained the classified
Pentagon Papers from
Daniel Ellsberg. His series in the Times revealed a secret
US Department of Defense history of the
Vietnam War and resulted in government attempts to halt publication. Born on a farm in
Holyoke, Massachusetts, Neil graduated from
Harvard University with a
BA in
1958, served in the
US Army from
1959 to
1961 and was a reporter for
UPI. He was awarded a non fiction
Pulitzer Prize in
1989 for
A Bright Shining Lie.
His wife, Susan Sheehan[?], was also awared a Pulitzer Prize in 1983 for Is There No Place on Earth for Me?
- The Pentagon Papers as published by the New York Times, 1971
- The Arnheiter Affair, 1972
- A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam , 1988
- After the War Was Over, 1992