Michael Shaara was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, in 1928 and graduated from Rutgers University in 1951. He wrote science fiction, sports fiction and historical fiction.
His Gettysburg novel The Killer Angels (1974) won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His other books include The Broken Place (1968) and For Love of the Game (1991). He died in Tallahassee, Florida, in 1988, at the age of 59.
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