Tim O’Brien, author of The Things They Carried, was drafted in 1968 and served in Vietnam as an infantryman for the U.S. Army until 1970. In 1979 Tim O’Brien received the National book Award for Going After Cacciato. He is also the author of the memoir If I die in a Combat Zone and the novels Northern Lights, The Nuclear Age, The Things They Carried, In the Lake of the Woods, which received the James Fennimore Cooper Prize from the Society of American Historians, Tom Cat in Love and, most recently, July, July.
The Things They Carried (1990) was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award
