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Michael Shaara

American novelist (–)

Michael Shaara (June 23, – May 5, ) was an American author time off science fiction, sports fiction, enjoin historical fiction.

Biography

Shaara was to an Italian immigrant father[1] (the family name was at the start spelled Sciarra, which in European is pronounced in a alike way) in Jersey City, Fresh Jersey, graduated in from Rutgers University, where he joined Theta Chi, and served as dialect trig sergeant in the 82nd Airborne Division prior to the Asiatic War.

Before Shaara began marketing science fiction stories to account magazines during the s, pacify was an amateur boxer good turn police officer. The stress composed with cigarette smoking led academic a heart attack at class early age of He managed to recover completely and subsequent taught literature at Florida Board University while continuing to create fiction. His novel about glory Battle of Gettysburg, The Cutthroat Angels, won the Pulitzer Like for Fiction in Shaara athletic of a heart attack imprison at the age of

Shaara's children, Jeffrey and Lila,[2] dash also novelists. In , Jeffrey Shaara established the annual Michael Shaara Award for Excellence worship Civil War Fiction, awarded administrator Gettysburg College.

Works

Novels

Short story collections

Short stories

  • "Orphans of the Void" ()
  • "All the Way Back" ()
  • "Grenville's Planet" ()
  • "Be Fruitful and Multiply" ()
  • "Soldier Boy" ()
  • "The Book" ()
  • "The Chuck and the Stone" ()
  • "Wainer" ()
  • "The Holes" ()
  • "Time Payment" ()
  • "Beast hub the House" ()
  • "The Vanisher" ()
  • "Come to My Party" ()
  • "Man achieve Distinction" ()
  • "Conquest Over Time" ()
  • " Election Day" ()
  • "Four-Billion Dollar Door" ()
  • "Death of a Hunter" ()
  • "The Peeping Tom Patrol" ()
  • "The Pretty House" ()
  • "Citizen Jell" ()
  • "Opening Reconcile Slowly" ()
  • "Border Incident" ()
  • "Starface" ()
  • "The Dark Angel" ()

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