Tim O'Brien is the author of GOING AFTER CACCIATO, winner of the 1979 National Book Award in fiction, and THE THINGS THEY CARRIED, which was named by the New York Times as one of the ten best books of l990, received the Chicago Tribune Heartland Award in fiction, and was a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 1993 the French edition of THE THINGS THEY CARRIED received the prestigious Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger. IN THE LAKE OF THE WOODS was named by Time magazine as the best novel of 1994. The book also received the James Fenimore Cooper Prize from the Society of American Historians and was selected as one of the ten best books of the year by the New York Times. His other books are IF I DIE IN A COMBAT ZONE, NORTHERN LIGHTS, THE NUCLEAR AGE and GOING AFTER CACCIATO. His two most recent novels, IN THE LAKE OF THE WOODS and TOMCAT IN LOVE, were national bestsellers.
O'Brien's short stories have appeared in Esquire, Harper's, Atlantic, Playboy, Granta, Gentleman's Quarterly, The New Yorker, and in several editions of The O. Henry Prize Stories, the Pushcart Prize, and Best American Short Stories. In 1987 he received the National Magazine Award for his story THE THINGS THEY CARRIED, which was also selected for inclusion in the Best American Short Stories of the Century, edited by John Updike. O'Brien has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.
