Tim O'Brien

Tim O’Brien is an author known primarily for works about war and its consequences. In 1979, he received the National Book Award for “Die Verfolgung.” His other books include “Was sie trugen,” a Pulitzer Prize finalist and a New York Times Book of the Century, and “Geheimnisse und Lügen,” which won the James Fenimore Cooper Prize. In 2013, O’Brien received the Pritzker Literature Award for lifetime achievement in military literature.