"Since it's appearance in The New Yorker, on July 15, 1967, Jonathan Schell's THE VILLAGE OF BEN SUC has come to be regarded as a classic of American reporting. It is a rigorously factual account of the destruction by the United States Army, of a South Vietnamese village and of what happened to the 3500 in habitants"--

Jonathan Schell (1943–2014) was an American nonfiction author whose work explored twentieth-century warfare. Best known for his book on the consequences of nuclear weapons, Fate of the Earth, he was a nominee for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Critics Prize. His work appeared in The New Yorker and The Nation.
Wallace Shawn was born in New York City and still lives there. He is the author of several books, including Essays and Night Thoughts, and many plays, including The Fever and The Designated Mourner. André Gregory's productions of The Designated Mourner and Grasses of a Thousand Colors are available as podcasts from Gideon Media; an opera written with Allen Shawn, The Music Teacher, is available from Bridge Records. His latest play, What We Did Before Our Moth Days, will eventually be seen.