Tim O'Brien
Tim O'Brien, renowned for his award-winning Vietnam War fiction, began his writing career as a newspaper reporter. He turned to writing fiction after publication of his memoir If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Send Me Home (reissued 1999) and subsequently has published seven novels. Mr. O'Brien received the National Book Award in fiction for Going After Cacciato, France's Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger and Chicago Tribune's Heartland Prize for The Things They Carried, and In the Lake of the Woods was named the best work of fiction in 1994 by Time. His latest book is July, July (Houghton Mifflin, October 2002).
