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NEW YORK(NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Ward Just, a journalist for whom the Vietnam War was both a personal trauma and a national tragedy, inspiring him to write novels about people whose lives are shaped by war, political intrigue, myopic diplomats and various forces beyond their control, died Thursday at a hospital in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
He was 84.
His daughter Julie Just said the cause was Lewy body dementia.
Just was recognized not only as a prominent reporter on the Vietnam War, like David Halberstam, Neil Sheehan, Peter Arnett and several others, but also as a novelist and short-story writer of the first rank.
His spare and graceful prose in a score of novels and numerous short stories was compared to Ernest Hemingway’s, while his perceptions about American society reminded some critics of Henry James.
“The milieu I knew as a reporter is the milieu I write about, the world of journalists, politicians, diplomats and soldiers,” Just said in 1987.
His novel