Awards & Winners

Tim O'Brien

Date of Birth 01-October-1946
Place of Birth Austin
(Mower County, Minnesota, United States of America)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Writer, Novelist, Author
William Timothy "Tim" O'Brien is an American novelist well known for writing about the Vietnam War in the book Going After Cacciato. However, his best known work of fiction is the critically acclaimed The Things They Carried, a collection of semi-autobiographical, inter-related short-stories inspired by O'Brien's wartime experiences in Vietnam. O'Brien has held the endowed chair at the MFA program of Texas State University-San Marcos every other year since the 2003-2004 year.

Awards by Tim O'Brien

Check all the awards nominated and won by Tim O'Brien.

1995


James Fenimore Cooper Prize
Honored for : In the Lake of the Woods

1991


Nominations 1991 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction The Things They Carried

1979


National Book Award for Fiction
Honored for : Going After Cacciato

Nominations 1979 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Award for Fiction Going After Cacciato