Tim O'Brien - 2009 National Book Festival

Fiction writer Tim O'Brien is the National Book Festival. Speaker Biography: Tim O'Brien has been hailed as "the best American writers of his generation" by the San Francisco Examiner. The author of eight books O'Brien received the National Book Award in Fiction in 1979 for his novel "Going After Cacciato." In 2005, "things that have brought" by the New York Times named one of 20 best books of the last quarter century. He received the Chicago Tribune Heartland Award in fictionand was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award. The French edition of "Things that Carried" received the prestigious Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger, and the history of the title was chosen by John Updike for inclusion in Best American Short Stories of the Century. published "In the Lake of the Woods", 1994, was chosen by Time magazine as the best novel of the year. The book received the James Fenimore Cooper Prize of the Society forAmerican Historians and was selected as one of the 10 best books of the year by The New York Times. O'Brien's other works include "If I die in a combat zone," "Northern Lights", "Tomcat in Love" and "July, July." His stories, which received the National Magazine Award, has in numerous publications, including The New Yorker, Atlantic, Esquire, Playboy published, and Harper's.