Michael Shaara

Michael Shaara (1928 - May 5, 1988) was a writer of science fiction, sports fiction, and historical fiction. Shaara began selling science fiction stories to fiction magazines in the 1950s. He later 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.

Works

• The Broken Place (1968); a novel involving boxing; Shaara had been an amateur boxer.
• The Killer Angels (1974)
• The Noah Conspiracy (1981); originally titled "The Herald".
• For Love of the Game (1991); a baseball novella published posthumously and adapted for film, released in 1999.