Author

Books by Tim O'Brien

Tim O'Brien is an American novelist and veteran widely regarded as one of the defining writers of the Vietnam War. His most celebrated book is The Things They Carried (1990), a hybrid fiction/memoir about a platoon in Vietnam that challenged genre boundaries and is now a standard of American high school and college curricula. His other novels include Going After Cacciato (1978), winner of the National Book Award, and Tomcat in Love (1998). O'Brien served in Vietnam from 1969 to 1970, and the war has remained the gravitational center of his work throughout his career.