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My father, Michael Shaara, died in 1988. He is mostly known for writing a novel of the battle of Gettysburg called The Killer Angels, which won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
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My father, Michael Shaara, died in 1988. He is mostly known for writing a novel of the battle of Gettysburg called The Killer Angels, which won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. |
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| It must be famous, because they’ve made it into Cliff Notes. |
| (Contrary to popular belief, my brother Jeff did not “find” the manuscript after my father’s death. My dad talked about it to everyone he knew, and had sent it to many publishers, all of whom passed on it. Sadly, it had greater value posthumously.)
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My Father, Michael Shaara |
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| And also into a movie: |
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| But that was the only historical fiction he wrote. He wrote lots and lots of science fiction short stories, many of which have been anthologized in various ways, for example, in this: |
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| He also wrote a novel that many people consider his finest, even though it’s out of print now, called The Broken Place. |
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| Of his other writings, the best known is probably For Love of the Game (not his title; I’m pretty sure he would have hated it. His original one was Billy Boy.) It was also made into a movie. |