Tim O’Brien (the award-winning, bestselling, iconic author of The Things They Carried) will be the featured author for The Peters Township Library Foundation’s 2nd annual Novel November event on Wednesday, November 7 at 7:00 pm!
Tim O’Brien received the National Book Award in Fiction in 1979 for his novel Going After Cacciato. In 2005, The Things They Carried was named by The New York Times as one of the twenty-two best books of the last quarter century. It received the Chicago Tribune Heartland Award in fiction and was a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. The French edition of The Things They Carried received one of France’s most prestigious literary awards, the Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger. The title story from The Things They Carried received the National Magazine Award and was selected by John Updike for inclusion in The Best American Short Stories of the Century.
In the Lake of the Woods, published in 1994, was chosen by Time magazine as the best novel of that year. The book also received the James Fenimore Cooper Prize from the Society of American Historians and was selected as one of the ten best books of the year by The New York Times.
In 2010, O’Brien received the Katherine Anne Porter Award, presented by the American Academy of Arts and Letters for a distinguished lifetime body of work. In November 2012, O’Brien received the Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award from the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation. In 2013, O’Brien received the Lifetime Achievement award from the Pritzker Military Library. O’Brien’s short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Atlantic, Esquire, Playboy, Harper’s, and numerous editions of The O. Henry Prize Stories and The Best American Short Stories.
His novels have sold more than six million copies and have been translated into more than 20 languages.
Don’t miss out:
We’ve seen O’Brien speak and can assure you that this is an event you won’t want to miss! Ticket prices are $5 for Students, $15 for Veterans, and $20 for Adults for general admission seating.
A limited number of VIP tickets will be sold for $60 and include:
- A pre-event reception/book signing with Tim O’Brien from 5:45 to 6:45 p.m.
- Passed hors-d’oeuvres by Chef Garnett Livingston
- VIP reserved seating
- A voucher for your choice of one of O’Brien’s books
The venue for this special event will be the Peters Township High School Auditorium at 264 East McMurray Road in McMurray. A book signing will follow the program (books will be sold by Penguin Bookshop at the event).
What comes to mind when you think of Pittsburgh?
Steel, Steelers, and Franco Harris’s immaculate reception, the latter of which did more for religion than all the saints put together.
What books are on your nightstand?
The Stranger by Albert Camus and A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway.
Is there a book you’d like to see made into a film?
I would very much like to see a film of The Things They Carried — as would the bursar at whatever colleges my sons end up attending.
Who would you most want to share a plate of pierogis with?
My family, at home, to avoid getting dressed…
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