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Tim O’Brien (1946 – )

Winner of the National Book Award in 1979 for Going after Cacciato

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Criticism about Tim O’Brien

Plausibility of Denial: Tim O’Brien, My Lai, and America

http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~hbf/obrien.html

“Tim O’Brien has been involved in both of these national achievements. His contribution to the antiwar movement–writing antiwar editorials for his college newspaper and later ringing doorbells for Eugene McCarthy in 1968–had no great immediate effect, even on himself, for he then marched off to fight in the very war he considered ‘evil.’ But his contribution to the literature of the war has been exceptional, partly because his own experience has led to an almost unbearable share of that American guilt and shame and anguish.”

Contains: Criticism

Author: H. Bruce Franklin

From: The Progressive December 1994

Keywords: Vietnam War

 

Retelling the Story: O’Brien’s Use of Repetition for Effect

http://www.illyria.com/tob/tobmkl.html

“[O’Brien’s] economical reuse of stories, phrases, and even characters give his work a resonance.”

Contains: Criticism

Author: Marilyn Litt

From: Popular Culture Association Conference Las Vegas, NV; March 1996

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Biographical sites about Tim O’Brien

Artful Dodge: A Conversation with Tim O’Brien

http://www.wooster.edu/artfuldodge/obrien.html

An interview with the author, from Artful Dodge, an Ohio-based literary magazine.

Contains: Interview

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A Storyteller For the War That Won’t End

http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/09/20/specials/obrien-storyteller.html

“The New York Times interviewed Tim O’Brien shortly before he returned to Vietnam for the first time since his service there.”

Contains: Interview

Author: D. J. R. Bruckner

From: The New York Times April 3, 1990

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The Things He Carried: Tim O’Brien on Love, Murder and Vietnam

http://www.dave-edelman.com/reviews/obrien.cfm

“An interview with the author about his novel In the Lake of the Woods.”

Contains: Interview

Author: Dave Edelman

From: Baltimore City Paper February 1995

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Tim O’Brien: Pain, Love, & Growth

http://www.illyria.com/tobjohnl.html

“An account of Tim O’Brien’s participation in the Quad Cities Super Author Residency program.”

Author: John P. Lavelle

From: Super Author Residency March 21, 22, and 23, 1996

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Other sites about Tim O’Brien

Tim O’Brien: An Introduction to His Writing

http://www.lopezbooks.com/articles/obrien.html

An overview of O’Brien’s novels, from If I Die in A Combat Zone to In the Lake of the Woods.

Contains: Commentary

Author: Ken Lopez

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Last Updated Nov 15, 2010