Books
He published his first book in 1958, a novel called The Professional, the story of a young fighter pursuing the middleweight boxing championship. Ernest Hemingway called the book "the only good novel I've ever read about a fighter, and an excellent novel in its own right." Heinz edited two boxing anthologies, "The Fireside Book of Boxing" and "The Book of Boxing" with Nathan Ward.
Heinz's additional books include Run to Daylight with football coach Vince Lombardi, "The Surgeon", "Emergency," and "Once They Heard the Cheers," in which the author travels the country revisiting sports heroes of his past. He also wrote the short story "The Rocky Road to Pistol Pete" about a baseball player, Harold Patrick Reiser, who fought through countless injuries to play the game that he loved. In the late sixties Heinz collaborated with Dr. H. Richard Hornberger to write the novel MASH using the pen name of Richard Hooker. The book was the precursor to the film MASH which won the award for the best film of the 1970 Cannes Film Festival and an Academy Award for best screenplay based on another medium in 1971. The book also served as the prototype for the long running, Emmy Award winning television series.
A collection of Heinz's war writings including his dispatches from Europe and some post war articles were republished in his book, "When We Were One: Stories of World War II."
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