Tim O'Brien (1) (1946–)

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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 toon meer 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) toon minder

Fotografie: 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.

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Wat ze droegen (1990) 14,014 exemplaren

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Ploughshares Winter 1995-96: Stories and Poems (1995) 7 exemplaren

How to Tell a True War Story 6 exemplaren

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Understanding Tim O'Brien (Understanding Contemporary American Literature) (1995) 2 exemplaren

The Kenyon Review Spring 2005 1 exemplaar

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Selected Shorts: Wartime Lives (2007) 1 exemplaar

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Officiële naam: O'Brien, William Timothy
Geboortedatum: 1946-10-01
Geslacht: male
Nationaliteit: USA
Geboorteplaats: Austin, Minnesota, USA
Woonplaatsen: Austin, Minnesota, USA (birthplace)
Worthington, Minnesota, USA
Central Texas, USA
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Opleiding: Macalester College (B.A., Political Science, 1968)
Harvard University (graduate work)
Beroepen: journalist
novelist
infantry foot soldier (United States Army)
teacher (Texas State University)
Organisaties: Texas State University-San Marcos (endowed chair ∙ MFA program)
Washington Post (intern)
United States Army
Prijzen en onderscheidingen: American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature ∙ 1992)
Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award (2012)

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The Nuclear Age door Tim O'Brien

1995: als antwoord op de zondvloed van de 20ste euw, de nukleaire dreigeing, werkt William Cowling aan een eigentijdse ark, een schuilkelder. De waanzin van het dagelijkse leven met het einde der tijden in zicht.

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