Dick Pirozzolo

Dick Pirozzolo is a journalist and author who has written extensively about the people of Vietnam, the history of American homebuilding and design, and cybercrime.

His 2017 work of fiction "Escape from Saigon - a Novel" was inspired by the people—ordinary and powerful—who endured the decades long war. He couples his masterful storytelling with his service during the Vietnam War, where he was awarded the Bronze Star for his work as a US Air Force media liaison officer in Saigon. While in Saigon, now Ho Chi Minh City, Dick often participated at the official daily press briefings aptly nicknamed, “The Five O’clock Follies.”

Dick is a member of the Historical Novel Society of Boston, the National Press Club of Washington, DC and the Society of Professional Journalists as well as its New York Chapter The Deadline Club.

Vietnam has always called to him. He returned many times during the mid-1990s, playing a prominent role in fostering US-Vietnam reconciliation that included establishing trade, travel and educational ties between the former enemy nations. His articles on Vietnam have appeared in "The Boston Herald," "Transpacific," "The Washington Times," "Insight" and "Destination Vietnam" to name a few publications.

He is on the Editorial Board of Boston Global Forum, a think tank with ties to Harvard University that fosters peaceful solutions to world tensions and supports cultural, commercial, and political ties with Vietnam as well.

Dick is at work writing a new novel set in the Nation's Capital and during the era when 24/7 cable news began to dominate the the American media scene.