Editor’s note: This article was originally published on Feb. 18, 2021. Tim O’Brien is many things. A Vietnam veteran. A Purple Heart recipient. The so-called “poet laureate of war.” One of the ...

It was 1969, and though controversy of the Vietnam War was taking up much of America’s attention, so was rock n’ roll. The genre became the soundtrack for young men, especially those fighting overseas ...

America Fantastica, the latest and perhaps last book by Austin novelist Tim O’Brien, yanks off the Vietnam War writer tag that has long dogged the author of Going After Cacciato and The Things They ...

National Book Award-winning author Tim O'Brien is best known for his stories about the Vietnam War, including the 1990 novel, The Things They Carried. But he says he'd give up every book he's written ...

Author Tim O’Brien once wrote about the things they carried. The soldiers in Vietnam, what they carried into the jungle. And ...

In 1969, when he was 22 years old and slogging through the jungles of Vietnam, land mines in front of him and snipers behind, Tim O’Brien was certain every day that he was going to die. He wrote only ...

One morning, teenage Timmy asked his father, novelist Tim O'Brien, what he was writing about. "I told him I was writing about coming home from war. My son laughed and said, 'Except you never came home ...

Known for his novel 'The Things They Carried,' O'Brien is now the subject of a new documentary, 'The War and Peace of Tim O'Brien.' When he became a father in his late 50s, he initially feared ...

Tim O’Brien, the novelist known for his Vietnam War-themed books “The Things They Carried” and “Going After Cacciato,” will serve as a consultant on the third season of the popular NBC show “This Is ...

Tim O'Brien, Author, read by Jay O. Sanders. Houghton Mifflin Audio $33 (0p) ISBN 978-0-618-25812-3 Like The Big Chill, National Book Award winner O'Brien's latest novel is about a group of college ...

National Book Award-winning author Tim O'Brien is best known for his stories about the Vietnam War, including the 1990 novel, The Things They Carried. But he says he'd give up every book he's written ...