AKA William Timothy O'Brien

Born: 1-Oct-1946
Birthplace: Worthington, MN

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Novelist

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Going After Cacciato

Military service: US Army (drafted, 1968-70, Vietnam War)

(Photo credit: Copyright Marilyn Knapp Litt, 2002)

    University: BA, Macalester College, St. Paul, MN (1968)
    Professor: Creative Writing, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX

    National Book Award for Fiction 1979 for Going after Cacciato
    The Washington Post 1971-74

    FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
    The Vietnam War (17-Sep-2017)

Author of books:
If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Send Me Home (1973, articles)
Northern Lights (1975, novel)
Going After Cacciato (1978, novel)
The Nuclear Age (1985, novel)
The Things They Carried (1990, novel)
In the Lake of the Woods (1994, novel)
Tomcat in Love (1998, novel)
July, July (2002, novel)

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