About Gloria Emerson: Gloria Emerson was an American author, journalist and New York Times war correspondent. She won the 1978 National Book Award in Contemporary Thought for her book about the Vietnam War, Winners and Losers.
Korea taught me nothing, for no one spoke of it when I was growing up, except as something about how wonderful the girls in Japan were. Vietnam taught some of us more than we perhaps ever wished to know.
I didn't write to be famous; I wrote to keep a record.
I applied for a job at 'The New York Times' many years ago, and felt correctly that my life depended on it.
The real victims of men are other men.
