- Born
- April 8, 1937 (age 89)
- Place of birth
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Also known as
- Sy Hersh, Seymour M. Hersh
Biography
Seymour Myron 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.