What Do We Give Our Children? Tim O’Brien Contemplates Fatherhood and Writing

Update: 2019-10-31

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Tim O'Brien received the 1979 National Book Award for Going After Cacciato. Among his other books are The Things They Carried, a Pulitzer Prize finalist and a New York Times Book of the Century, and In the Lake of the Woods, winner of the James Fenimore Cooper Prize. He was awarded the Pritzker Literature Award for lifetime achievement in military writing in 2013.

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What Do We Give Our Children? Tim O’Brien Contemplates Fatherhood and Writing

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What Do We Give Our Children? Tim O’Brien Contemplates Fatherhood and Writing

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What Do We Give Our Children? Tim O’Brien Contemplates Fatherhood and Writing