Tim O'Brien
American novelist and memoirist whose Vietnam War fiction is among the most powerful war literature in the American canon. The Things They Carried blurs memoir and fiction to interrogate the nature of truth in storytelling. His work is required reading in American high schools and universities.
Works
- Going After CacciatoSoldier fantasizes pursuing deserter across continents during Vietnam War
- The Things They CarriedSoldiers in Vietnam carry physical and emotional burdens of war
- If I Die in a Combat ZoneMemoir of author's experience as young draftee sent to Vietnam War
- In the Lake of the WoodsHusband disappears mysteriously as wife struggles with truth and memory
- Tomcat in Love
- Northern Lights
- July July