SAN FRANCISCO - David Halberstam, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author who chronicled the Washington press corps, the Vietnam War generation and baseball, was killed in a car crash early Monday, a coroner said. He was 73. The full article can be read at: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070423/ap_en_ce/obit_halberstam

David Halberstam was also notable for chronicling the early days of the Civil Rights movement in his novel 'The Children'.