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Tim O'Brien was born in Austin, Minnesota on October 1, 1946, [6] the son of William Timothy O'Brien and Ava Eleanor Schultz O'Brien. [1] When he was ten, his family – including a younger brother and sister – moved to Worthington, Minnesota. Worthington had a large influence on O’Brien's imagination and his early development as an author.
Oct 13, 2023 · Tim O'Brien, author of the great novel 'The Things They Carried,' explains how COVID and Trump spawned 'America Fantastica,' his first novel in 20 years.
Feb 24, 2021 · Tim O'Brien was a foot soldier during the Vietnam War. "The problem for me really is that I questioned the rectitude of the war," he says. "I thought I was doing the wrong thing by being there."
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Tim O’Brien(born October 1, 1946, Austin, Minnesota, U.S.) is an American novelist noted for his writings about American soldiers in the Vietnam War. After studying political scienceat Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota (B.A., 1968), O’Brien fought in Vietnam. When he returned to the United States, he studied intermittently at Harvard ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Oct 31, 2003 · Learn about the life and works of Tim O’Brien, a National Book Award-winning author of fiction and nonfiction about the Vietnam War. Explore his themes of storytelling, truth, and morality in his books and stories.
Oct 23, 2023 · Tim O’Brien’s diagnosis of what ails America in 2023 is “mythomania,” which he defines as an epidemic of lying that swept our nation during the Trump presidency, infecting man and, he ...
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Tim O'Brien has 118 books on Goodreads with 767735 ratings. Tim O'Brien’s most popular book is The Things They Carried.
