Before Shaara began selling science fiction stories to fiction magazines during the 1950s, he was an amateur boxer and police officer. The stress combined with cigarette smoking led to a heart attack at the early age of 36. He managed to recover completely and later taught literature at Florida State University while continuing to write fiction. 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 at the age of 59.
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michael, shaara, june, 1928, 1988, american, author, science, fiction, sports, fiction, historical, fiction, born, italian, immigrant, father, family, name, originally, spelled, sciarra, which, italian, pronounced, similar, jersey, city, jersey, graduated, 195. Michael Shaara June 23 1928 May 5 1988 was an American author of science fiction sports fiction and historical fiction He was born to an Italian immigrant father 1 the family name was originally spelled Sciarra which in Italian is pronounced in a similar way in Jersey City New Jersey graduated in 1951 from Rutgers University where he joined Theta Chi and served as a sergeant in the 82nd Airborne Division prior to the Korean War Before Shaara began selling science fiction stories to fiction magazines during the 1950s he was an amateur boxer and police officer The stress combined with cigarette smoking led to a heart attack at the early age of 36 He managed to recover completely and later taught literature at Florida State University while continuing to write fiction 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 at the age of 59 Shaara s children Jeffrey and Lila 2 are also novelists In 1997 Jeffrey Shaara established the annual Michael Shaara Award for Excellence in Civil War Fiction awarded at Gettysburg College Contents 1 Works 1 1 Novels 1 2 Short story collections 1 3 Short stories 2 References 3 External linksWorks EditNovels Edit The Broken Place 1968 The Killer Angels 1974 Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1975 Later used as the basis for the film Gettysburg The Noah Conspiracy 1981 also known as The Herald For Love of the Game 1991 made into a film in 1999 3 Short story collections Edit Soldier Boy 1982 Short stories Edit Orphans of the Void 1952 All the Way Back 1952 Grenville s Planet 1952 Be Fruitful and Multiply 1952 Soldier Boy 1953 The Book 1953 The Sling and the Stone 1954 Wainer 1954 The Holes 1954 Time Payment 1954 Beast in the House 1954 The Vanisher 1954 Come to My Party 1956 Man of Distinction 1956 Conquest Over Time 1956 2066 Election Day 1956 Four Billion Dollar Door 1956 Death of a Hunter 1957 The Peeping Tom Patrol 1958 The Lovely House 1958 Citizen Jell 1959 Opening Up Slowly 1973 Border Incident 1976 Starface 1982 The Dark Angel 1982 References Edit Michael Shaara Papers www broward org Retrieved 2018 12 22 A literary legacy Lila Shaara emerges as novelist in her own right by John Young in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette published March 16 2012 For Love of the Game 1999 IMDb Retrieved 2013 04 16 External links Edit Wikiquote has quotations related to Michael Shaara Michael Shaara at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database Analysis of Soldier Boy Biography at jeffshaara com Michael Shaara prize details Works by Michael Shaara at Project Gutenberg Works by Michael Shaara at LibriVox public domain audiobooks Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Michael Shaara amp oldid 1131139821, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
