'Green Berets' author also wrote 'French Connection' - Los Angeles Times

リンク: 'Green Berets' author also wrote 'French Connection' - Los Angeles Times.

Robin Moore, a nonfiction author best known for writing "The French Connection" and "The Green Berets," has died after a long illness. He was 82.

Moore died Thursday  at a hospital in southwestern

Kentucky

, Dennis Monroe of Lamb Funeral Home told the Associated Press.

Born Robert L. Moore Jr., he wrote several books under the pen name Robin Moore.

"The French Connection," published in 1969, was about a

New York

drug bust. It inspired a 1971 film that won five Academy Awards, including best picture.

"The Green Berets," published in 1965, became a bestseller and was made into a movie starring

John Wayne

in 1968.

Moore also co-wrote with the late singer Barry Sadler "The Ballad of the Green Berets," which became the signature song of the Special Forces unit.