MICHAEL SHAARA

'Michael Shaara' (June 23, 1928 - May 5, 1988) was an American writer of science fiction, sports fiction, and historical fiction. He was born to Italian immigrant parents (the family name was originally spelled Sciarra) in Jersey City, New Jersey, graduated from Rutgers University in 1951, and served as an airborne infantry officer in 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. 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''.

Contents

Works

Novels

Short stories

External links

Works

Novels

★ ''The Broken Place'' (1968)

★ ''The Killer Angels'' (1974)

★ ''The Noah Conspiracy'' (1981)

★ ''Soldier Boy'' (1982)

★ ''For Love of the Game'' (1991)

Short stories

★ "The Book" (from the ''Alpha 9'' collection)

External links

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★ Analysis of ''Soldier Boy''

★ Biography at jeffshaara.com