Author

Books by Tim O'Brien

Tim O'Brien served as an infantry soldier in Vietnam with the United States Army from 1969 to 1970, reaching the rank of sergeant. He studied at Harvard after the war and became a full-time writer. In addition to The Things They Carried, his novels include Going After Cacciato (which won the National Book Award in 1979), The Nuclear Age, and In the Lake of the Woods. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He teaches creative writing at Texas State University.