a fatal collision that, along with an 18-wheel truck, killed 75-year-old Wayne Thomas White Sr. on Afton Mountain's route 250 near Waynesboro, Virginia. In October, the commonwealth's attorney added a charge of involuntary manslaughter, and in December Webster was formally indicted. On February 18, 2015, he pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter. In the February/March 2018 edition of AARP Magazine he wrote that he began drinking and suffering from PTSD after reporting on the Southeast Asian Tsunami in 2004. He recounted how his personal and professional life had been ruined by the time he spent in prison saying, "As I slowly edge toward 60, with a broken family, virtually no money, nothing great in the way of work prospects and only my wits and a few friends who love me still around, I have a powerful remorse for the damage I have caused. But what I don't have — perhaps because I simply can't afford it — is self pity. [...] But I have realized that there’s some great power in being around long enough to comprehend that no matter the damage we’ve done, a new door will open." Death On the Fourth of July, 2018, Donovan committed suicide. Bibliography Traveler's Tales: France, Traveler's Tales 1995 From the Field: The Best of National Geographic Writing, National Geographic 1997 Aftermath – The Remnants of War, Donovan Webster, Pantheon Books, New York, 1996 The Burma Road: The Epic Story of the China-Burma-India Theater in World War II, Donovan Webster, Farrar Straus & Giroux, New York, NY, 2003 Tears of Stone (foreword), by Jane Alden Stevens, University of Cincinnati, 2004, Babylon by Bus, Ray Lemoine & Jeff Neumann, (with Donovan Webster), Penguin Press, New York, NY, 2006 Meeting the Family: One Man's Journey Through His Human Ancestry, Spencer Wells (Foreword), National Geographic/Random House, 2010 Ship of Death: A Voyage that Changed the Atlantic World, (with Billy Smith), Yale University Press, 2013 The Southerner's Handbook, Harper/Wave, 2013 Moonshine: Five Centuries of American History, Distilled Corn Whiskey, and Stickin‘ it to the Man, Amazon Kindle Singles (2014) Good Dog: True Stories of Love, Loss, and Loyalty, Harper/Wave, 2014 Keller's Turn: a novel, Xlibris, 2014 War Stories: True-Life Fiction from the Global War on Terror, Xlibris, 2015, Journeys Home: Inspiring Stories, Plus Tips & Strategies to Find Your Family History, National Geographic Society, 2015 See also Aftermath: The Remnants of War References 1959 births 2018 deaths American