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This author appeared at the 2012 festival. Please view the list of authors appearing at this year's festival or see our suggestions for similar authors below.
 Tim O'BrienOne of the most celebrated and best selling American authors of the past fifty years, Tim O’Brien is the 2012 recipient of the Texas Writer Award. O’Brien’s first work, If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home, was a memoir about his tour of duty during the Vietnam War. The author of seven novels, O’Brien is known for combining fact and fiction in order to explore the effects of war. Going After Cacciato won the 1979 National Book Award, and In The Lake of the Woods received the James Fennimore Cooper Prize and was named best novel of the year by Time magazine. The semi-autobiographical The Things They Carried was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. O’Brien has also received awards from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. His books have sold more than three million copies and have been translated into more than twenty languages. In 2012, O’Brien received The Dayton Literary Peace Prize Ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award, which honors an author’s body of work that does "not let the world forget that peace can be forged with words." O’Brien’s archives are held by University of Texas at Austin’s Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center. A resident of Austin with his wife and two sons, O’Brien is currently Professor of Creative Writing at Texas State University—San Marcos. On the web: Click Here Share: 
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