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	Amazon.ca: July July: Books: Tim Obrien (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		O'Brien wrote two books that I consider superior works of modern fiction: "In the Lake of the Woods" and "The Things They Carried" (which I rank with "Paco's Story" as one of the two best pieces of literature to emerge from the Vietnam War).
		O'Brien succeeds only when he returns to the ground on which he is most confident: the soil of wartime Vietnam.
		O'Brien makes liberal use of plot devices, and he does not really break new ground, but there is a quirkiness about some of the characters and relationships I found very appealing, and there is an abundance of honest emotion.
	www.amazon.ca /July-Tim-Obrien/dp/0142003387 (1965 words)

	Amazon.ca: In The Lake Of The Woods: Books: Tim Obrien
		Tim O'Brien has been writing about Vietnam in one way or another ever since he served there as an infantryman in the late 1960s.
		Included in this third-person narrative are "interviews" with the couple's friends and family as well as footnoted excerpts from a mix of fictionalized newspaper reports on the case and real reports pertaining to historical events--a mélange that lends the novel an eerie sense of verisimilitude.
		Tim O'Brien's In the Lake of the Woods is written in a similar style to the rest of his fiction books.
	www.amazon.ca /Lake-Woods-Tim-Obrien/dp/0140250948 (1714 words)

	Ken Lopez - Bookseller: Intro to Tim O'Brien
		Tim O'Brien is of the generation of writers who came of age during the Vietnam War era and his writing has focused on that turbulent period in American history with compassion and insight.
		O'Brien strives to perfect his vision and his expression of it, grasping for transcendent moral truths while reaching squarely into the unadorned, direct experience of our times for his material.
		Tim O'Brien has been called "the best writer of his generation." His work will stand the test of time, and the archive of his manuscripts will be a literary milestone of our era.
	www.lopezbooks.com /articles/obrien.html (1013 words)

	A Self-Made Man
		O'Brien, as for many other Vietnam veterans, the "happening-truth" is a terrible thing; it is too powerful to look at, though you are forced to witness it.
		O'Brien has always insisted on the spectral quality of the things that happened in Vietnam, not to deny their reality, but to suggest that seeing was never adequate proof.
		O'Brien, the commission of sin began in earnest in 1969, when he decided to go to Vietnam instead of to Canada after he was drafted into the Army, he said in a recent telephone interview from his home in Cambridge, Mass.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/98/09/20/specials/obrien-lake.html (1937 words)

	AUTHOR RESOURCES (ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHIES & BIOGRAPHIES) Tim O'Brien Biography
		Tim O'Brien, an American author, was born William Timothy O'Brien on October 1, 1946, in Austin, Minnesota (Gale Group, 1999).
		O'Brien was raised in Worthington, "Turkey Capital of the World" by his father William, an insurance salesman, and his mother Eva, an elementary school teacher.
		O'Brien was classified as an infantryman and assigned to 3rd Platoon, A Co., 5th Battalion 46th Infantry (Merricks, 2000).
	www.nhti.edu /library/authorresources/o'brienbio.htm (956 words)

	Tim O'brien Signature - Fadedgiant Online Author Autograph Guide - Books, Links, Quotes
		The author takes us with him -- to experience combat from behind an infantryman's rifle, to walk the minefields of My Lai, to crawl into the ghostly tunnels, and to explore the ambiguities of manhood and morality in a war gone terribly wrong.
		In "On the Rainy River," the character Tim O'Brien responds to his draft notice by driving north, to the Canadian border where he spends six days in a deserted lodge in the company of an old man named Elroy while he wrestles with the choice between dodging the draft or going to war.
		The real Tim O'Brien quietly boarded the bus to Sioux Falls and was inducted into the United States Army.
	www.fadedgiant.net /html/obrien_tim.htm (734 words)

	Bookreporter.com - Author Profile: Tim O'Brien
		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.
		O'Brien has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.
		Tim O'Brien, the crafty and talented author of TOMCAT IN LOVE, talks about life, love, writing, and the tomcat within us all.
	www.bookreporter.com /authors/au-obrien-tim.asp (1208 words)

	Tim O'Brien - Authors Attending The Northern Arizona Book Festival
		Tim O’Brien was born in 1946 in Austin, Minnesota, and spent most of his youth in the small town of Worthington, Minnesota.
		Tim O’Brien is the author of Going After Cacciato, which received the National Book Award in fiction, and The Things They Carried, which received France’s Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger.
		O’Brien is the recipient of literary awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
	www.flagstaffcentral.com /bookfest2004/authors2004/obrien.html (322 words)

	Amazon.com: Northern Lights: Books: Tim Obrien (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Tim O'Brien is an award-winning writer and I have really enjoyed some of his other novels.
		Through more recent critically acclaimed works, Tim O'Brien has established himself as an author to be reckoned with; he is able to craft stories that are beguiling and sobering, hooking readers from the very start.
		O'Brien is a master storyteller; his novels are full of poetic observations about the miniutae of everyday life peppered with dialogue and characters that are vividly realistic.
	www.amazon.com /Northern-Lights-Tim-Obrien/dp/0613628136 (1448 words)

	Casa Flamingo- About the Author (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Tim O'Brien has been blessed with wanderlust since elementary school, and fortunately for him, he has always had jobs that required travel.
		Tim is currently the VP of Publishing and Communications for Ripley Entertainment, the owners and operators of the Believe it or Not!
		A veteran photojournalist, Tim was a reporter for 18 years with Amusement Business, the leading business trade magazine for the amusement park and attraction industries.
	www.casaflamingo.com /about2.html (516 words)

	Amazon.com: Tomcat in Love: Books: Tim Obrien (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		He has taken to flying down to Tampa from Minnesota on weekends to spy on his ex-wife and plot revenge against her, the tycoon, and Lorna Sue's brother, Herbie, whom he blames for destroying his marriage.
		Although O'Brien is on interesting ground laying out Chippering's childhood crush on Lorna Sue in 1950s Minnesota, the book careens toward an unconvincing portrait of madness that is irritatingly flippant and shrill.
		Also the character is supposed to be a Linguistics professor, and while the author briefly mentioned the title of a class or two, and numerous female students, I found the characterization extremely unbelievable.
	www.amazon.com /Tomcat-Love-Tim-Obrien/dp/0613628632 (1885 words)

	Augustana College Articles
		Tim O'Brien, a Vietnam War veteran who has written five novels based on his experience as a combat infantryman, will discuss his writing in public events scheduled for Wednesday, October 5 and Thursday, October 6.
		Tim O'Brien, a native of a small town in Minnesota, graduated from Macalester College with a degree in political science in 1968, the same year was drafted to serve in the Vietnam War.
		Tim O'Brien is now a visiting professor and endowed chair at Southwest Texas State University where he teaches in the Creative Writing Program.
	www.augustana.edu /articles/obrien.php (513 words)

	Tim O'Brien: A Ransom Discussion Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		For the most part, O’Brien’s time in Vietnam was filled with the faceless enemies and terror that he and his fellow soldiers worked hard to keep at bay.
		Tim O’Brien the character is a writer and he plans to write about the war.
		O’Brien’s books are not easy reads (as you can well imagine)—they are intense, painful, emotionally wrenching, and full of the vulgar language of soldiers under the stress of combat.
	www.ransomfellowship.org /B_OBrien.html (2152 words)

	CNN.com - Tim O'Brien's reunion from hell - Oct. 9, 2002
		Tim O'Brien has never been to a college reunion.
		O'Brien tells their stories in pieces, sandwiching swatches of time at the reunion between short story-like chapters focusing on a single character.
		But O'Brien, 56, has been moving away from the war in his more recent works, "In the Lake of the Woods" and "Tomcat in Love." Indeed, "July, July" began as a story about the reunion, not the war.
	edition.cnn.com /2002/SHOWBIZ/books/10/09/tim.obrien (901 words)

	Press Release for July, July published by Houghton Mifflin Company
		Having expertly chronicled the life of soldiers in-country and veterans haunted by their memories, O'Brien expands his signature theme to encompass an entire generation.
		In prose that is at once humorous and heart-wrenching, O'Brien explores the lives of the former students of Darton Hall College, gathered together under cardboard stars in a gymnasium in the heat of a July 2000 weekend.
		Entertaining, ambitious, tender, and insightful, July, July is a masterful exploration of the conflicting forces — idealism and resignation, love and loss, aging and regeneration — unleashed on a generation of men and women still living with the heartache of the Vietnam War.
	www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com /booksellers/press_release/obrien (565 words)

	PH@school: Literature: Author Biographies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Award-winning author Tim O'Brien is best known for his fictional but gripping portrayals of the Vietnam War.
		O'Brien's literary works convey the lasting and unresolved effects of the war in Vietnam–not only on his life but also on the lives of Americans in general.
		O'Brien shifts his focus to a civilian's perspective in The Nuclear Age (1985), a story about a draft dodger who opposes the war.
	www.phschool.com /atschool/literature/author_biographies/obrien_t.html (274 words)

	Tim O'Brien, My Lai, and America
		Indeed, the key phrase in their 1963 covert plan for the war (National Security Advisory Memorandum 273) was "plausibility of denial." And "denial" has been, in every sense, the essential term necessary to plumb the resulting depths of secrecy, deception, and delusion.
		This awareness generates for O'Brien a tortured dialectic of concealment and exposure, which in turn spins the dazzlingly intricate webs of imagination and memory that constitute his fiction.
		O'Brien makes almost no attempt to show how the revelations about Wade's acts in Vietnam devastate his candidacy and thus destroy his life.
	andromeda.rutgers.edu /~hbf/obrien.html (1816 words)

	Tim O'Brien's Guestbook-1998
		Tim O'Brien, I have recently read your book "The Things They Carried", I must say i was rather impressed with your ability to discribe the veitnam war so vividly.
		Tim O'Brien's "In the Lake of the Woods" is truly an inspirational novel; very mysterious and intriguing; without doubt the best book I have read this year.
		O'Briens precise prose, moral vision, and love inspire me. "I was a coward: I went to the war" is a monument to courage, as is his dedication to writing to us as he wrestles with truth.
	www.illyria.com /tob/tob_guest99.html (15010 words)

	Tim O'Brien's Home Page, Novelist
		O'Brien's introduction to the 95 issue of Ploughshares he co-edited.
		Tim O'Brien is now a visiting professor at Texas State University where some very lucky students are learning from him through that university's Creative Writing Program.
		Tim O'Brien is interviewed, but I have not seen it.
	www.illyria.com /tobhp.html (1495 words)

	AWG_obrien_tim
		This site is an article from San Francisco's METROACTIVE on Tim O'Brien's war experiences, views, and stories, especially In the Lake of the Woods and Going After Cacciato.
		Providing "an overview of Tim O'Brien's themes" and summaries of these two works, the site may be useful to teachers "planning a unit on Vietnam literature." Student resources are fair here, though perhaps the comparisons of O'Brien's works to those of Hemingway may be intriguing for some.
		This fair to good site is a Gadfly magazine interview with O'Brien offering "an insightful look at the writer's mind." Teachers "will find excerpts of the interview useful" for discussion, especially about O'Brien's war writings.
	www.ncteamericancollection.org /awg_obrien_tim.htm (467 words)

	Novelist Tim O'Brien Part Of SLU Writers Series (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		A List 4/19/99 NOVELIST TIM O'BRIEN PART OF SLU WRITERS SERIES CANTON - Tim O'Brien, a writer known for his compelling depictions of the Vietnam war, will speak and read from his recent work in an appearance at St. Lawrence University on Wednesday, April 28, at 8 p.m.
		He is the author of the 1978 National Book Award winner in fiction, Going After Cacciato, as well as the 1990 book The Things They Carried, named one of the year's best by The New York Times.
		O'Brien's 1994 novel In The Lake of the Woods was named the best of the year by Time magazine and won the James Fenimore Cooper Prize from the Society of American Historians.
	www.stlawu.edu /news/obrien.html (218 words)

	Illustrator: Tim O'Brien :: IllustrationMundo.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Tim has received multiple awards and recognitions from the Society of Illustrators in New York and Los Angeles, Graphis, Print, Communication Arts Magazine, the Society of Publication Designers, American Illustration, and the Art Director's Club.
		Tim has 12 paintings in the collection of the National Gallery, Washington, DC, and he is the youngest artist included in the recent update of "The Illustrator in America, 1880-2000."
		Tim lives in Prospect Park South in Brooklyn in a huge Victorian house with his wife Elizabeth Parisi, and their son Cassius.
	www.illustrationmundo.com /audio/artist/82 (603 words)

	Price Compare ISBN 0767902890 The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien - Direct Textbooks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		I will say though, that Tim's writing is beautiful and engaging...I would give anything to be able to write like him.
		Tim O'Brien has had his hand and heart in this writing.
		I found that a number of friends now teaching the art of writing are using it as one of a group of absolute classics that are being taught.
	www.directtextbook.com /prices/0767902890 (445 words)

	O'brien, Tim (1946—) Biography \| sjpc_03_package.xml
		Best known for his fictional portrayal of the Vietnam War, Tim O'Brien is an American novelist and short story writer who has been compared to Ernest Hemingway, Stephen Crane, and Joseph Heller.
		In Going After Cacciato (1978) and The Things They Carried (1990), the novels that established his reputation, O'Brien explores the horrors and ambiguities of war in a style that is eloquent, precise, and highly evocative.
		An intensely passionate writer, O'Brien has attempted to move beyond the tag of "war writer" by composing works that reveal the ways in which love and civilian life can resemble war.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/obrien-tim-1946-sjpc-03 (150 words)

	Bibliography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		O’Brien claims that since the war is such a central part
		Author was chief of military intelligence in Saigon.
		Author was lawyer, journalist, and officer during the war.
	swc2.hccs.cc.tx.us /rowhtml/OBRIEN/Bib2.html (647 words)

	OBrien
		Lesley Hine was the Military Archivist of the Americal Division during my period of research and I owe much to his ability to sift through a profusion of original material and find the most useful nuggets of information.
		I am grateful to Tim O'Brien for not only giving me an exceptionally useful interview but also remaining patient and helpful in providing answers to my subsequent queries.
		Or you could try reading a few interviews with the author to gain insight into the autobiographical aspects of his writing.
	www2.winchester.ac.uk /TimOBrien/OBrien.htm (670 words)

	News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Tim O'Brien speaks with students following his lecture.
		O’Brien, who wore jeans, sneakers, and a baseball cap, spoke for a little more than one hour about the book, his writing, his military experience in Vietnam, and his childhood in Minnesota.
		O’Brien took questions about his novels and writing style and autographed copies of his book.
	www.yu.edu /news_stories/nov2003/obrien.html (212 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Tomcat in Love: Books: Tim Obrien (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		To date, Tim O'Brien's novels have all shared common traits: his heroes hail from the Midwest, usually Minnesota; Vietnam figures prominently; and the stories he tells, though invested with mordant wit, are usually pretty grim.
		What I didn't like was the way the author kept throwing single words and groups of words around and then wax lyrical about how evocative they were: I know Thomas is supposed to be a Professor of Linguistics; but I didn't need to share this part of his life, I'm afraid
		On one level, Tim O' Brien's brilliant new novel is an hysterical, laugh-out-loud account of an abandoned husband's quest for vengeance and inexorable breakdown, a study of how one man's obsession with his childhood sweetheart almost destroys his entire life.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Tomcat-Love-Tim-Obrien/dp/0613628632 (1576 words)

	Author: Tim Obrien - The Nile NZ
		Author: Tim Obrien - The Nile NZ Login
		Her novels have spent a combined 660 weeks in the New York Times Bestseller list, including 100 weeks in the Number 1 spot.
		In The Lake Of The Woods - Tim O'brien
	www.thenile.co.nz /books/Tim-Obrien (127 words)

	(William) Tim(othy) O'Brien Biography \| Dictionary of Literary Biography
		Tim O'Brien, a contemporary American novelist and short-story writer of immense imaginative power and range, freely admits that the Vietnam War was the dark, jarring experience that made him a writer.
		Unlike many of his peers, O'Brien returned to America sound of mind and body if not of spirit.
		Each Biography is written by a biographical expert or professional educator and is a complete resource on the individual.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/william-timothy-obrien-dlb (126 words)

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