Philip Caputo, an American author and journalist best known for the memoir A Rumor of War, died on May 7, 2026, at age 84.
Born in Westchester, Illinois, in 1941, he attended Loyola University Chicago and graduated with a B.A. in English in 1964.
He served in the United States Marine Corps in Vietnam from 1965 to 1966. Caputo later joined the Chicago Tribune, where he worked as a journalist and was part of a reporting team that won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973 for coverage of election fraud in Chicago. He wrote 19 books, including memoirs, nonfiction, novels and short-story collections.
Philip Caputo, 84, American author (A Rumor of War) and journalist.