12/15/2023 0 Comments Author tim obrienSIDELIGHTS: Award-winning author Tim O'Brien is perhaps best known for his fictional, yet gripping, portrayals of the Vietnam conflict, especially of its people. July, July, Houghton Mifflin (Boston, MA), 2002.Ĭontributor to magazines, including Playboy, Esquire, and Redbook.ĪDAPTATIONS: July, July was adapted as an audio-book, Houghton Mifflin Audio, 2003. Tomcat in Love, Broadway Books (New York, NY), 1998. In the Lake of the Woods, Houghton Mifflin (Boston, MA), 1994. The Things They Carried: A Work of Fiction, Houghton Mifflin (Boston, MA), 1990. The Nuclear Age, Press-22, 1981, Knopf (New York, NY), 1985. Going after Cacciato (novel), Delacorte (New York, NY), 1978. Northern Lights (novel), Delacorte (New York, NY), 1975. If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me up and Ship Me Home (anecdotes), Delacorte (New York, NY), 1973. Henry Memorial Awards, 19, for chapters of Going after Cacciato National Book Award, 1979, for Going after Cacciato Vietnam Veterans of America award, 1987 Heartland Prize, Chicago Tribune, 1990, for The Things They Carried has also received awards from National Endowment for the Arts, Massachusetts Arts and Humanities Foundation, and Bread Loaf Writers' Conference New York Times Notable Book designation, American Library Association Notable Book designation, and James Fenimore Cooper Prize for Historical Fiction, all 1995, all for In the Lake of the Woods. Army, 1968-70, served in Vietnam became sergeant received Purple Heart.ĪWARDS, HONORS: O. Washington Post, Washington, DC, national affairs reporter, 1973-74 Breadloaf Writer's Conference, Ripton, VT, teacher. Agent-Lynn Nesbit, International Creative Management, 40 West 57th St., New York, NY 10019.ĬAREER: Novelist. (summa cum laude), 1968 graduate study at Harvard University.ĪDDRESSES: Home-Boxford, MA. (a teacher maiden name, Schultz) O'Brien married, 1973 wife's name, Ann (a magazine production manager). PERSONAL: Born October 1, 1946, in Austin, MN son of William T.
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