Ron Kovic: Ron Kovic. Writer: Born on the Fourth of July. Imagine having Tom Cruise play your life story in a movie, and ending up on stage in Hollywood celebrating the movie's two Oscars? All Ron Kovic had to do to achieve this fantasy was serve three tours of duty in Vietnam, get paralyzed for life by combat wounds, and write a best-selling book about it all. A war veteran turned anti-war activist,...
Known For: Born on the Fourth of July (Writer), The End of Ethics (Self), There Must Be Some Kind of Way Outta Here (Self - Anti-war activist, writer and former US marine), Behind Our Eyes: The Human Cost of War (Self)