Tim O'Brien (13) : Tim O'Brien

Meet Big Read author Tim O'Brien. O'Brien's service in the United States Army (3rd Platoon, A Company, 5th Battery, 46th Infantry, 1969-1970) as a foot soldier has inspired him to write award-winning fiction and well-received non-fiction. His Vietnam War memoir "If I Die in a Combat Zone" was published ... (more)in 1973. "Going After Cacciato" won the National Book Award in fiction in 1979. "In the Lake of the Woods" received the James Fenimore Cooper Prize from the Society of American Historians and was named Best Novel of the Year by Time Magazine (1994). "The Things They Carried," published in 1990, received France's Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger (Best Foreign Book Prize) and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. O'Brien teaches in the Master's of Fine Arts Creative Writing Program at Texas State University-San Marcos. Books will be available for signing following the program. Tim O'Brien's visit is made possible by Candlewood Suites - Wichita Airport, Friends of the Wichita Public Library, Friends University Library, USD 259 - Wichita Public Schools, Wichita State University Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Wichita State University Libraries. Part of The Big Read - Wichita. See a complete list of events at www.bigreadwichita.org. (60 minutes)