What is Ward Just?
[[File:Ward just 8895 (cropped).jpg|right|200px]] '''Ward Swift Just''' (September 5, 1935 – December 19, 2019) was an American writer. He was a war correspondent and the author of 17 novels and many short stories. He was born in [[Michigan City, Indiana]]. [[Ben Bradlee|Benjamin Bradlee]] hired Just at ''[[The Washington Post]]'' as a war correspondent for the [[Vietnam War|Vietnam war]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.mvartsandideas.com/2014/06/interview-with-ward-just/|title=Interview with Ward Just|last=Shea|first=Jack|date=19 June 2014|website=Martha's Vinyard Arts and Ideas|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=August 14, 2019}}</ref> His novel ''An Unfinished Season'' was a finalist for the [[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]] in 2005. His novel ''Echo House'' was a finalist for the [[National Book Award]] in 1997. Just died on December 19, 2019 in [[Plymouth, Massachusetts]] of problems caused by [[Lewy body dementia]], aged 84.<ref>[https://vineyardgazette.com/news/2019/12/20/ward-just-helped-define-new-era-journalism Ward Just Helped Define a New Era in Journalism]</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== {{Wikiquote}} *[[Houghton Mifflin]] [http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/catalog/authordetail.cfm?authorID=687 author page for Ward Just] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111105195339/http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/catalog/authordetail.cfm?authorID=687 |date=2011-11-05 }} *[http://www.perseusbooksgroup.com/perseus/author_detail.jsp?id=1000022160 Perseus Books Group author page for Ward Just] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927002154/http://www.perseusbooksgroup.com/perseus/author_detail.jsp?id=1000022160 |date=2007-09-27 }} *[http://www.robotwisdom.com/jorn/just.html Ward Just resources on the Web] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061025191552/http://www.robotwisdom.com/jorn/just.html |date=2006-10-25 }} *[http://www.vqronline.org/articles/1998/spring/nelson-ward-justs-washington/ Ward Just's Washington] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org