Awards & Winners

Michael Shaara

Date of Birth 23-June-1928
Place of Birth Jersey City
(Hudson County, New Jersey, United States of America, Area code 551, Area code 201, Area codes 201 and 551)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Novelist, Writer
Michael Shaara was an American writer of science fiction, sports fiction, and historical fiction. He was born to Italian immigrant parents in Jersey City, New Jersey, graduated in 1951 from Rutgers University, where he joined Theta Chi, and served as a sergeant in the 82nd Airborne division prior to the Korean War. Before Shaara began selling science fiction stories to fiction magazines in the 1950s, he was an amateur boxer and police officer. He later taught literature at Florida State University while continuing to write fiction. The stress of this and his smoking caused him, at the early age of 36, to have a heart attack, one from which he fully recovered. His novel about the Battle of Gettysburg, The Killer Angels, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1975. Shaara died of a heart attack in 1988. Shaara's son, Jeffrey Shaara, is also a popular writer of historical fiction; most notably sequels to his father's best-known novel. His most famous is the prequel to The Killer Angels, Gods and Generals. Jeffrey got Michael's last book, For Love of the Game, published three years after he died. Today there is a Michael Shaara Award for Excellence in Civil War Fiction, established by Jeffrey Shaara, awarded yearly at Gettysburg College.

Awards by Michael Shaara

Check all the awards nominated and won by Michael Shaara.

1975


Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Honored for : The Killer Angels: A Novel of the Civil War