[1] Danbury Hospital, Danbury, CT.
Wife: (div., two daughters)
Daughter: diana (b. 1945)
Daughter: Marcia (b. 1946)
Wife: Toshiko Matsumura (m. 1960, one daughter)
Daughter: Tamiko
High School: Phillips Exeter Academy
University: Williams College
University: Yale University
Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction 1971 for The Rising Sun
Author of books:
The Last 100 Days: The Tumultuous and Controversial Story of the Final Days of World War II in Europe (1966, history)
The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945 (1970, history)
The Great Dirigibles: Their Triumphs and Disasters (1972, nonfiction)
Adolf Hitler (1976, biography)
Battle: The Story of the Bulge (1980, history)
No Man's Land: 1918, The Last Year of the Great War (1980, history)
Infamy: Pearl Harbor and Its Aftermath (1982, history)
The Gods of War (1985, novel)
Occupation (1987, novel, sequel to The Gods of War)
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