<p>Philip Caputo, who wrote a bestselling and brutally honest memoir about his time as a Marine fighting in the Vietnam War and later won a Pulitzer Prize while working as a reporter for the Chicago Tribune, died Thursday at his home in Norwalk, Connecticut.</p><p>Mr. Caputo, 84, died of cancer, his son Marc Caputo said in a post <a class="Link" href="https://www.facebook.com/marc.caputo.5/posts/pfbid02Sv4HMXm3Rbc8psMYtefAEbKFFzQH7o2jtvsspFmjasbFL9EKabADFj7a3ov9pnPCl" target="_blank" >on Facebook</a>.</p><p>“A Rumor of War,” published in 1977, sold more than 1.5 million copies, was translated into 15 languages and has often been required reading for high school students to learn about the Vietnam War. </p><p>"You smell the rain forest, the sweat, the burning villages, the rank fear, the running blood, the twisted morality, the decomposing bodies, the animal in us all," a reviewer for the Chicago Sun-Times wrote of "A Rumor of War," Mr.