Tim O’Brien (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)
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Tim O’Brien wrote magazine and newspaper articles about the Vietnam War while he was a soldier. He published articles on American politics as a reporter for the Washington Post in the mid-1970’s. Popular magazines and literary quarterlies also published his short stories and essays. If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home (1973, revised 1979) contains partially fictionalized memoirs, and The Things They Carried (1990) collects short stories that are also closely based upon his tour of duty in Vietnam. Some critics...
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