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Shaara, Michael (also known as Michael Joseph Shaara, Jr.)
Michael Shaara was born on June 23, 1929 in Jersey City, N.J., and died on May 5, 1988 in Tallahassee, Florida. He was the son of Michael Joseph Shaara, Sr., an Italian immigrant and union organizer, and Allene (Maxwell) Shaara. He married Helen Elizabeth Krumwiede in 1950 (marriage which ended in 1980), and had two children: Jeffrey and Lila Elise. Shaara graduated from Rutgers University with a B.A. in 1951, and continued with graduate studies at Columbia University (1952-53) and University of Vermont (1953-54). Although he knew in Rutgers that writing would be the main goal of his life, his prolific short story career began in the 1950s, after a short stint as a paratrooper, a merchant seaman, and a police officer in St. Petersburg, Florida. In 1959, Shaara was hired as an instructor of English at Florida State University, and by 1968, he had risen to the position of Associate Professor. Shaara received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1975 for his novel, The Killer Angels .
Shaara wrote four novels and published more than 70 short stories in magazines including Cosmopolitan, Galaxy, Fantastic Universe, Playboy, Redbook and the Saturday Evening Post . He began writing in the science fiction and fantasy genres for the popular pulp fiction magazines of the time and won several awards. It was the fifties --- J.R.R. Tolkien published his trilogy Lord of the Rings and Russia launched Sputnik into orbit. The space race began and shortly after, the country was threatened by the Cuban Missile Crisis in the fall of 1962. Shaara's themes reflected his times and dealt with everyday events, as well as with aliens, and the devastation of complete cities from nuclear disasters.
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Shaara, Michael
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Michael Shaara was born on June 23, 1929 in Jersey City, N.J., and died on May 5, 1988 in Tallahassee, Florida. He was a writer and professor of English at Florida State University. His early fiction was published in numerous fantasy and science fiction magazines. By the late 1950s and early 1960s, Shaara broadened his focus to include mainstream fiction and began publishing his work in Cosmopolitan, Redbook, and the Saturday Evening Post. Shaara wrote four novels: The Broken Place, (1968); The ...
