Who wrote the original novel that Oliver Stone's "Born on the Fourth of July" was based on?

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Who wrote the original novel that Oliver Stone's "Born on the Fourth of July" was based on?

Ron Kovic

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Oliver Stone is one of the great personalities of American cinema. He has been much influenced by his past as a soldier in the Vietnam War, as seen for instance in his movie "Born on the Fourth of July", based on the original novel by Tom Kovic, starring Tom Cruise. Politics have been integral to his career. In 1991 he directed the film "JFK" about the assassination of John F. Kennedy, which caused an outcry in the American population. After directing "Natural Born Killers" and the epic movie "Alexander", he went on to make the movie "World Trade Center" in 2006, in which Nicolas Cage and Michael Pena played two firemen trapped under the collapsed World Trade Center.

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