About Tim O'Brien
Tim O'Brien is an American novelist well known for writing about the Vietnam War and the impact it had on the American soldiers who fought there. He won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction in 1979 for the Vietnam novel Going After Cacciato.O'Brien has held the endowed chair at the MFA program of Texas State University-San Marcos several times, from 2003 to 2004, then from 2005 to 2006, and a third time from 2008 to 2009.
Novels
Northern Lights (1975)
Going After Cacciato (1978)
The Nuclear Age (1985)
In the Lake of the Woods (1995)
Tomcat in Love (1998)
July, July (2002)
Going After Cacciato (1978)
The Nuclear Age (1985)
In the Lake of the Woods (1995)
Tomcat in Love (1998)
July, July (2002)
Collections
The Things They Carried (1990)
The Putt at the End of the World (2000) (with Lee K Abbott, Dave Barry, Richard Bausch, James Crumley, James W Hall, Tami Hoag, Ridley Pearson and Les Standiford)
The Things They Carried / In the Lake of the Woods (2011)
The Putt at the End of the World (2000) (with Lee K Abbott, Dave Barry, Richard Bausch, James Crumley, James W Hall, Tami Hoag, Ridley Pearson and Les Standiford)
The Things They Carried / In the Lake of the Woods (2011)
Non fiction
If I Die in a Combat Zone: Box Me Up And Ship Me Home (1973)
From How to Tell a True War Story (1987)
From How to Tell a True War Story (1987)
Anthologies containing stories by Tim O'Brien
Short stories
| The Ghost Soldiers (1981) |
Awards
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Tim O'Brien recommends
 Back in the World (1985) Tobias Wolff "Terrific...The magic of his fiction cannot be explained. It is the ancient art of the master storyteller." |  Third And Indiana (1994) Steve Lopez "Lopez writes from the heart and the gut... A gripping and moving story." |  The Obituary Writer (2000) Porter Shreve "Taut, compelling, and moving... beautifully written, engrossing from start to finish." |
 Gorgeous Lies (2002) Martha McPhee "A genuine work of art. Martha McPhee plainly ranks as one of our country's best young writers." |  Don't I Know You? (2006) Karen Shepard "Among the most suspenseful and moving novels I've read in many years." |  The Wake of Forgiveness (2010) Bruce Machart "A gripping American drama." |
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