- Born
- Birth nameWilliam Timothy O'Brien
- Tim O'Brien was born on October 1, 1946 in Austin, Minnesota, USA. He is a writer, known for Going After Cacciato, The Things They Carried and St Nicholas and the Children (1989).
- Winner of the 1979 National Book Award for "Going After Cacciato", Broadway Books, ISBN 0767904427.
- Was once an intern for the Washington Post.
- In 2013 was awarded the $100,000 Pritzker Military Library Literature Award.
- His novel In the Lake of the Woods won the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for Best Historical Fiction.
- Earned a BA in Political Science from Macalester College in 1968.
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