About Seymour Hersh
Seymour Myron "Sy" Hersh is an American investigative journalist and political writer. He gained recognition in 1969 for exposing the My Lai massacre and its cover-up during the Vietnam War, for which he received the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting. During the 1970s, Hersh covered the Watergate scandal for The New York Times, also reporting on the secret U.S. bombing of Cambodia and the Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) program of domestic spying. In 2004, he detailed the U.S. military's torture and abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib in Iraq for The New Yorker. Hersh has won five George Polk Awards and two National Magazine Awards. He is the author of 11 books, including The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House (1983), an account of the career of Henry Kissinger that won the National Book Critics Circle Award.
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Awards & Honors
George Polk Award
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Orwell Award
Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting
James Aronson Award
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Sam Adams Award
Worth Bingham Prize
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LennonOno Grant for Peace
Carey McWilliams Award
The Hillman Prize for Book Journalism
The Hillman Prize for Newspaper Journalism
National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction
Weintal Prize for Diplomatic Reporting
Manuel Vázquez Montalbán Award for Cultural and Political Journalism
