Autor/-in: Tim O'Brien

Tim O¿Brien was born in Minnesota and served as a foot soldier in Vietnam from 1969 to 1970, and after graduate studies at Harvard worked as a reporter for the Washington Post. When `If I Die in a Combat Zone¿ was published in 1973, it established him as one of the leading American writers of his generation, a status that was confirmed when `Going After Cacciatö won the National Book Award for fiction.