His most famous is the prequel to The Killer Angels, Gods and Generals. Shaara's son, Jeffrey Shaara, is also a popular writer of historical fiction most notably sequels to his father's best-known novel. Shaara died of another heart attack in 1988. His novel about the Battle of Gettysburg, The Killer Angels, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1975. The stress of this and his smoking caused him to have a heart attack at the early age of 36 from which he fully recovered.
He later taught literature at Florida State University while continuing to write fiction. He was born to Italian immigrant parents (the family name was originally spelled Sciarra, which in Italian is pronounced the same way) in Jersey City, New Jersey, graduated from Rutgers University in 1951, and served as a sergeant in the 82nd Airborne division prior to the Korean War.īefore Shaara began selling science fiction stories to fiction magazines in the 1950s, he was an amateur boxer and police officer. Michael Shaara was an American writer of science fiction, sports fiction, and historical fiction.
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