User:Jlran77/Paul Betit (author)
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Paul Betit (born Nov. 10, 1946) is a Maine newspaperman and author of mystery-suspense novels featuring U.S. Army CID investigator John Murphy.
After earning a journalism degree from the University of Maine in 1974, Betit spent 11 years working as a general assignment reporter, sportswriter, copy editor and page designer at the Kennebec Journal in Augusta, Maine. Since 1985, he has worked as a sportswriter for the Portland Press Herald[1] and Maine Sunday Telegram in Portland, Maine. In 1996 and 2001, Betit won first-place awards for his sports features in the Maine Press Association’s Better Newspaper Contest[2] and received an honorable mention in that category in 1991.
Phu Bai: A Vietnam War Story follows the exploits of Murphy as he investigates a murder at a U.S. Army base in South Vietnam as U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War reached its zenith in 1967. Phu Bai was originally published by a Michigan publisher and re-released in 2005 by Just Write Books[3]. Betit's Kagnew Station, a sequel, set at a U.S. military base in Ethiopia during the summer of 1968. (Published by Just Write Books, 2006.)
As a member of the U.S. Army Security Agency (1965-69), Betit served as an intelligence analyst in South Vietnam and Ethiopia.
Married with two grown sons, Betit currently lives in Topsham, Maine.
Bibliography
[edit]2004 Phu Bai: A Vietnam Ware Story
2006 Kagnew Station
References
[edit]External links
[edit]- http://www.paulbetit.com/ Author's Homepage
- http://www.waterborolibrary.org/MWI_detail.php?authID=349 Maine Writer's Index.