Awards & Winners

Neil Sheehan

Date of Birth 27-October-1936
Place of Birth Holyoke
(Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States of America)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Cornelius Mahoney "Neil" Sheehan
Profession Journalist, Writer, Author
Cornelius Mahoney "Neil" Sheehan is an American journalist. As a reporter for The New York Times in 1971, Sheehan obtained the classified Pentagon Papers from Daniel Ellsberg. His series of articles revealed a secret U.S. Department of Defense history of the Vietnam War and led to a U.S. Supreme Court case when the United States government attempted to halt publication. He received a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award for his 1988 book A Bright Shining Lie, about the life of Lieutenant Colonel John Paul Vann and the United States involvement in the Vietnam War.

Awards by Neil Sheehan

Check all the awards nominated and won by Neil Sheehan.

1989


Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
Honored for : A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
Ambassador Book Award for American Studies
Honored for : A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam

Nominations 1989 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
Pulitzer Prize for History A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam

1988


National Book Award for Nonfiction
Honored for : A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam

Nominations 1988 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Award for Nonfiction A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam