Michael phillips wsj biography

PERSONAL:

Married; children: two.

ADDRESSES:

Home—Washington, DC. [email protected].

CAREER:

Writer and journalist.

Michael phillips wsj biography

Wall Street Journal, staff reporter.

WRITINGS:

The Gift of Valor: A War Story, Broadway Books (New York, NY), 2005.

SIDELIGHTS:

Michael M. Phillips is a staff reporter for the Wall Street Journal. An experienced war correspondent, Phillips has served several tours of duty in Iraq embedded with the 3rd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment.

His experiences covering the bloody reality of the Iraq war serve as background for Phillips's first book, The Gift of Valor: A War Story. In this book, Phillips tells the wartime story of twenty-two-year-old Marine Corporal Jason Dunham, the first U.S.

Marine since the Vietnam War to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, America's highest military distinction, for his bravery and valor in combat. The medal, however prestigious, was awarded posthumously—Dunham died of wounds received w