# Tim O'Brien

Tim O'Brien. Recorded on 2002-10-12. Researchers. Teachers. Tom O'Brien, renowned for his award-winning Vietnam War fiction, began his writing career as a newspaper reporter. He turned to writing fiction after publication of his memoir "If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Send Me Home" and subsequently has published seven novels. O'Brien received the National Book Award in fiction for "Going After Cacciato," France's Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger and Chicago Tribune's Heartland Prize for "The Things They Carried," and "In the Lake of the Woods" was named the best work of fiction in 1994 by Time. His latest book is "July, July."

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2002
- By: Library Of Congress
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/2021692048/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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