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Michael Shaara Biography & Notes


Michael Shaara (1928 - May 5, 1988) was a writer of science fiction and historical fiction. Shaara began selling science fiction stories to pulp magazines in the 1950s. Shaara taught literature at Florida State University. 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. Shaara's son, Jeffrey Shaara, is also a popular writer of historical fiction.


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Annals of the Civil War/Decisive Battles of the Civil War/a Treasury of Civil War Tales/Killer Angels by Michael Shaara, Joseph Mitchell, Webb B. Garrison ( 1991)
The Broken Place by Michael Shaara ( 1981)

Returning from the Korean War, Tom McClain feels alienated from his family and former friends, and finds boxing his only solace.
For Love of the Game For Love of the Game by Michael Shaara ( 1999)

The cult classic baseball novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Killer Angels" is now a major motion picture starring Kevin Costner. The book features a special Introduction by Shaara's son, Jeff, who wrote the bestsellers "Gods and Generals" and "The Last Full Measure, " continuing the story of "The Killer Angels."
Gods and Generals Gods and Generals A Novel by Michael Shaara, Jeff M. Shaara, Jeff Shaara ( 1996)

The extraordinary lives, passions, and careers of four great military leaders--Stonewall Jackson, Winfield Scott Hancock, Joshua Chamberlain, and Robert E. Lee--come to a climax as Union and Confederate forces clash on the battlefields of the Civil War. A first novel. Simultaneous.
The Herald by Michael Shaara ( 1981)

Most of the seventy thousand inhabitants of the town of Jefferson have died from mysterious radiation, and attempts must be made to find the Nobel Prize winning geneticist inside the area.
The Killer Angels The Killer Angels a novel of the civil war by Michael Shaara ( 2004)

Incisive portraits of Lee, Longstreet, Meade, and other Civil War leaders are interwoven with rich historical detail to provide a fictional recreation of the bloody battle at Gettysburg, in a new hardcover edition of the Pulizer Prize-winning historical novel. Book available.
The Noah Conspiracy by Michael Shaara ( 1994)

A man must make the choice: save every living person from a deadly and mysterious plague, or take steps that will preserve future generations.
Soldier Boy by Michael Shaara ( 1982)

Science-fiction stories explore such topics as the loneliness of a robot, evolution, and an election in the distant future.
Sparknotes the Killer Angels Sparknotes the Killer Angels by Michael Shaara ( 2003)

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