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  1. 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.

    • Memoirs, war stories, short stories
    • 1973–present
    • American
    • William Timothy O'Brien Jr., October 1, 1946 (age 77), Austin, Minnesota, U.S.
  2. Feb 24, 2021 · Courtesy of Gravitas Ventures. National Book Award-winning author Tim O'Brien is best known for his stories about the Vietnam War, including the 1990 novel, The Things They Carried. But he says he ...

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  4. The Aubrey–Maturin series is a sequence of nautical historical novels—20 completed and one unfinished—by English author Patrick O'Brian, set during the Napoleonic Wars and centring on the friendship between Captain Jack Aubrey of the Royal Navy and his ship's surgeon Stephen Maturin, a physician, natural philosopher, and intelligence agent.

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  5. by. Don Lee. The good news is that Tim O'Brien is writing fiction again. In 1994, after his sixth book, In the Lake of the Woods, was released, he distressed his many fans by vowing to stop writing fiction "for the foreseeable future." Then, a few months later, he published a now famous essay in. The New York Times Magazine that described his ...

  6. 4 days ago · 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 science at Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota (B.A., 1968), O’Brien fought in Vietnam. When he returned to the United States, he studied intermittently at ...

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  7. Award-winning author Tim O'Brien ( The Things They Carried , July, July) has incorporated his experience in Vietnam into several of his novels and short stories. Drafted into the U.S. Army in 1968 ...

  8. Feb 20, 2024 · Tim O’Brien (b. 1946) is a well-known contemporary American writer of seven novels, one memoir, and numerous short stories, nonfiction essays, and reviews. He has been a regular contributor to The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and Esquire, and selections from The Things They Carried and other works are frequently anthologized in textbooks and ...

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