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Michael Shaara

(1929 - 1988)
(Father of Jeff Shaara and Lila Shaara)

About Michael Shaara

Michael Shaara was an American writer of science fiction, sports fiction, and historical fiction. He was born to Italian immigrant parents (the family name was originally spelled Sciarra) in Jersey City, New Jersey, graduated from Rutgers University in 1951, and served as an airborne infantry officer in the Korean War.

Shaara's son, Jeffrey Shaara, is also a popular writer of historical fiction; most notably sequels to his father's best-known novel. His most famous is the prequel to The Killer Angels, Gods and Generals.

Novels

The Broken Place (1968)
The Killer Angels (1974)
The Herald (1981)
aka The Noah Conspiracy
For Love of the Game (1991)

Omnibus

Three Great Novels of the Civil War (1994) (with Stephen Crane, MacKinlay Kantor)
The Civil War Trilogy (1999) (with Jeff Shaara)

Collections

Soldier Boy (1982)

Anthologies containing stories by Michael Shaara

Best SF 3 (1958)
Election Day 2084: Science Fiction Stories About the Future of Politics (1984)
Robots (1988)
The Science Fiction Century (1996)

Short stories

	Soldier Boy (1953)
	2066: Election Day (1956)
	Counterspy
	Grenville's Planet

Awards

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Best Novel winner (1975) : The Killer Angels

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