10 facts about tim o'brien
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Tim O’Brien Biography
“Storytelling is the essential human activity. The harder the situation, the more essential it is. In Vietnam men were constantly telling one another stories about the war. Our unit lost a lot of guys around My Lai, but the stories they told stay around after them. I would be mad not to tell the stories I know.”—Tim O’Brien
Award-winning author Tim O’Brien is best known for his fictional portrayals of the Vietnam conflict. He was born in 1946 in Austin, Minn., and spent most of his youth in the small town of Worthington, Minn. He graduated summa cum laude from Macalester College in 1968. From February 1969 to March 1970 he served as infantryman with the U.S. Army in Vietnam, after which he pursued graduate studies in government at Harvard University. He worked as a national affairs reporter for The Washington Post from 1973 to 1974.
Tim O’Brien is the author of Going After Cacciato, which received the National Book Award in fiction, and The Things They Carried, which received France’s prestigious Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger and was also a f
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Tim O'Brien was born October 1, 1946 and is an American novelist. O'Brien earned his B.A. in 1968 in Political Science from Macalester college. That same year he was drafted into the U.S. Army and was sent to Vietnam. Upon completing his tour he went to Harvard University to attend graduate school. Soon after, he obtained an internship with the Washington Post, and began writing he world renowned novels.
- 1973: If I Die In a Combat Zone, Box Me Up And Ship Me Home was one of Tim O'Brien's first novels.
- It is an autobiographical account of Tim's tour of duty in the Vietnam War
- The novel was originally published by Delacorte Press in a hardcover edition.
- It has won several awards, including Outstanding Book of 1973, by the New York Times
- 1978: Going After Cocciato
- This is considered to be an anti-war novel, but Tim O'Brien prefers people to call it a peace novel
- It was originally published in 1978 by Delacorte Press
- Has won many awards including the 1979 National Book Award
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Tim O'Brien (author)
American novelist (born 1946)
For other people of the same name, see Tim O'Brien (disambiguation).
Tim O'Brien (born October 1, 1946) is an American novelist who served as a soldier in the Vietnam War. Much of his writing is about wartime Vietnam,[1] and his work later in life often explores the postwar lives of its veterans.[2]
O'Brien is perhaps best known for his book The Things They Carried (1990), a collection of linked semi-autobiographical stories inspired by his wartime experiences.[3] In 2010, The New York Times described it as "a classic of contemporary war fiction."[4][5] O'Brien wrote the war novel, Going After Cacciato (1978), which was awarded the National Book Award.
O'Brien taught creative writing, holding the endowed chair at the MFA program of Texas State University–San Marcos every other academic year from 2003 to 2012.
Biography
Early life
Tim O'Brien was born in Austin, Minnesota on October 1, 1946,[6] the son of William Timothy O'Brien and Ava
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