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Tim O’Brien was born in 1946 in Austin, Minnesota, and spent most of his youth in the small town of Worthington, Minnesota.
He graduated summa cum laude from Macalester College in 1968.
From February 1969 to March 1970 he served as infantryman with the U.S. Army in Vietnam, after which he pursued graduate studies in Government at Harvard University.
He worked as a national affairs reporter for The Washington Post from 1973 to 1974.
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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. In the Lake of the Woods, a work of fiction published in 1994, received the James Fenimore Cooper Prize from the Society of American Historians and was named best novel of the year by
Time magazine. Mr. O’Brien’s other books are
If I Die in a Combat Zone, Northern Lights, The Nuclear
Age, Tomcat in Love, and July, July.
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His short fiction has appeared in numerous literary and popular magazines, including
The New Yorker, Esquire, Harper’s, The
Atlantic, Playboy, and Ploughshares, and in several editions of
The Best American Short Stories and The O. Henry Prize
Stories. In 1987, Mr. O’Brien received the National Magazine Award for his short story,
The Things They Carried, and in 1999 the same story was selected for inclusion in
The Best American Short Stories of the Century edited by James Updike.
Mr. 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.
He has been selected to both the Society of American Historians and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Mr. O’Brien currently holds the Roy F. and Joann Cole Mitte Chair in Creative Writing at Southwest Texas State University.
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