Jeff Shaara

Jeffrey Michael "Jeff" Shaara (born February 21, 1952 in New Brunswick , New Jersey ) is an American military writer .

Life

Jeff Shaara has Italian roots and was born in New Jersey in 1952 as the son of Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Shaara (1929–1988) . He grew up in Tallahassee , Florida and studied criminology at Florida State University there . After graduating (BS 1973), he moved to Tampa and initially worked in the coin and precious metal trade until he sold it when his father died.

Shaara has been the author of numerous historical novels since the 1990s, some of which have won awards and were featured on The New York Times Best Seller list . The historical drama Gods and Generals (1996) was filmed by Warner Bros. , directed by Ronald F. Maxwell . He has also taught several literary courses as part of the National Endowment for the Arts Operation Homecoming program . From 2007 to 2014 he was on the Board of Governors of the Civil War Trust.

He is married and now lives in Gettysburg , Pennsylvania .

Awards

• 1997: WY Boyd Literary Award for Excellence in Military Fiction for Gods and Generals
• 2001: Bell I. Wiley Award, Civil War Round Table of New York
• 2005: WY Boyd Literary Award for Excellence in Military Fictio for To The Last Man
• 2007: Richard Nelson Current Award, Lincoln Forum
• 2011: College of Criminology Hall of Fame, Florida State University
• 2011: Distinguished Writer's Award, Florida State University

Novels

• Gods and Generals (1996) - Civil War ISBN 9780345409577
• The Last Full Measure (1998) - Civil War ISBN 9780345404916
• Gone for Soldiers (2000) - Mexican-American War ISBN 9780345427502
• Rise to Rebellion (2001) - American Revolutionary War , Prehistory ISBN 9780345427533
• The Glorious Cause (2002) - American Revolutionary War ISBN 9780345427564
• To the Last Man (2004) - First World War ISBN 9780345461346
• The Rising Tide (2006) - Second World War , Trilogy Part 1 ISBN 9780345461414
• The Steel Wave (2008) - World War II, Trilogy Part 2 ISBN 9780345461421
• No Less Than Victory (2009) - Second World War, Trilogy Part 3 ISBN 9780345497925
• The Final Storm (2011) - World War II, Pacific ISBN 9780345497949
• A Blaze of Glory (2012) - Civil War, Western Theater , Tetralogy Part 1 ISBN 9780345527356
• A Chain of Thunder (2013) - Civil War, Western Theater of War, Tetralogy Part 2 ISBN 9780345527387
• The Smoke at Dawn (2014) - Civil War, Western Theater , Tetralogy Part 3 ISBN 9780345527417
• The Fateful Lightning (2015) - Civil War, Western Theater of War, Tetralogy Part 4 ISBN 9780345549198
• The Frozen Hours (2017) - Korean War ISBN 9780345549228

literature

• R. Bruce Bickley, Jr .: Jeff Shaara (1952-) . In: Joseph M. Flora, Amber Vogel (Eds.): Southern Writers. A New Biographical Dictionary . Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge 2006, ISBN 0-8071-3123-7 , pp. 360 f.
• Gary D. Schmidt: Michael and Jeff Shaara . In: Michael D. Sharp (Ed.): Popular Contemporary Writers . Volume 9, Marshall Cavendish Reference, Tarrytown 2006, ISBN 0-7614-7610-5 , pp. 1247-1262.

Web links

• Search for Jeff Shaara in the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
• Jeff Shaara's website