Tim O'Brien (1) (1946–)
Autor(a) de The Things They Carried
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About the Author
Tim O'Brien was born on October 1, 1946 in Austin, Minnesota. He graduated from Macalester College in 1968 and was immediately drafted into the U. S. Army, serving from 1969 to 1970 and receiving a Purple Heart. Three years later, his memoirs of the Vietnam War were published as If I Die in a mostrar mais Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home. Later works include Northern Lights (1975), Going After Cacciato (1978, winner of the National Book Award), and The Things They Carried (1990, winner of the Melcher Book Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award). (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Image credit: English: Author Tim O'Brien at the 2012 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas, United States. O'Brien won the 1979 National Book Award for Fiction for his novel Going After Cacciato.
Obras por Tim O'Brien
How to Tell a True War Story 7 exemplares
The Things They Carried (short story) 5 exemplares
The Kenyon Review Spring 2005 1 exemplar
Associated Works
The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: Fifty North American American Stories Since 1970 (1999) — Contribuidor — 504 exemplares
You've Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories that Held Them in Awe (1994) — Contribuidor; Introdução — 377 exemplares
Novel History: Historians and Novelists Confront America's Past and Each Other (2001) — Contribuidor — 132 exemplares
War No More: Three Centuries of American Antiwar and Peace Writing (2016) — Contribuidor — 86 exemplares
The Other Side of Heaven: Post-War Fiction by Vietnamese and American Writers (1995) — Contribuidor — 39 exemplares
Very seventies : a cultural history of the 1970s, from the pages of Crawdaddy (1995) — Contribuidor — 24 exemplares
American Soldier: Stories of Special Forces from Iraq to Afghanistan (Adrenaline) (2002) — Contribuidor — 19 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome legal
- O'Brien, William Timothy
- Data de nascimento
- 1946-10-01
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Austin, Minnesota, USA
- Locais de residência
- Austin, Minnesota, USA (birthplace)
Worthington, Minnesota, USA
Central Texas, USA
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA - Educação
- Macalester College (B.A., Political Science, 1968)
Harvard University (graduate work) - Ocupações
- journalist
novelist
infantry foot soldier (United States Army)
teacher (Texas State University) - Organizações
- Texas State University-San Marcos (endowed chair ∙ MFA program)
Washington Post (intern)
United States Army - Prémios e menções honrosas
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature ∙ 1992)
Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award (2012)
Membros
Críticas
Listas
Five star books (1)
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THE WAR ROOM (2)
Into the Woods (1)
Asia (1)
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War Literature (1)
New to Read 2024 (1)
Metafiction (1)
Asia (1)
100 New Classics (1)
Read This Next (1)
AP Lit (3)
Fiction For Men (2)
Best War Stories (1)
Allie's Wishlist (1)
Unread books (1)
E's Reader (1)
1990s (1)
Books I've Read (1)
Prémios
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 18
- Also by
- 34
- Membros
- 23,114
- Popularidade
- #914
- Avaliação
- 4.0
- Críticas
- 579
- ISBN
- 286
- Línguas
- 13
- Marcado como favorito
- 83