Natural inside Minnesota, around the settlement sustaining merely astir 9,000 humans (the setting which numbers conspicuously inside his novels), he earned his BA in Political Science from Macalester College in 1968. That equivalent month he was drafted into a infantry, and was sent to Vietnam, where he served from either 1969 to 1970. He served in the Americal Division, infamous for its participation in the My Lai massacre, shortly before O'Brien arrived inside Vietnam, which numbers into his writing. Upon completing his tour of duty, O'Brien went in to graduate school at Harvard and received an internship at the Washington Post. His writing career was launched around 1973 using a release of If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Send Me Home, about his war experiences.

Of these attribute unique to O'Brien's function is the fuzz between fiction & reality, which he himself discusses in The Things They Carried, especially in the section highborn "How to Tell a True War Story". Typically, what is written is non what really happened, however what "should have happened", when he states.

Books by Tim O'Brien include: If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Send Me Home (1973) Northern Lights (1975) Going After Cacciato (1978) The Nuclear Age (1985) The Things They Carried (1990) In the Lake of the Woods (1994) Tomcat in Love (1998) July, July (2002)

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