Novel by Michael Hastings to Be Published Posthumously

The journalist and author, who died in a car crash in June, had been working on a novel based on his own life, which will be released next summer.

    



Michael Hastings, 33, Winner of Polk Award, Dies

Mr. Hastings, an intrepid war zone reporter in Afghanistan and Iraq, won a Polk Award in 2010 for his Rolling Stone magazine cover story, “The Runaway General.”

    

Michael Hastings, Polk Winner, Dies in Crash at 33

Mr. Hastings, the journalist whose reporting led to the ouster of the commander of American forces in Afghanistan in 2010, was killed in a car crash, the news Web site BuzzFeed said.