Jeff Shaara
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| Born | February 21, 1952 New Brunswick, New Jersey |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | American |
| Ethnicity | Italian American |
| Alma mater | Florida State University |
| Genres | Historical fiction |
| Notable work(s) | Gods and Generals, The Last Full Measure |
| Relative(s) | Michael Shaara (Father, deceased), Lila Shaara (Sister) |
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Jeffrey M. "Jeff" Shaara (born February 21, 1952) is an American novelist, the son of Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Shaara.
Jeffrey Shaara was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey and grew up in Tallahassee, Florida. He graduated from Florida State University in 1974 with a degree in Criminology and lives in Tallahassee.
He wrote Gods and Generals and The Last Full Measure which are the prequel and sequel, respectively, to his father Michael's award-winning novel The Killer Angels. Jeff followed his father's footsteps upon the latter's death, writing historical fiction and documenting the American wars and their most historically relevant characters. In total, Jeff has penned eight New York Times bestselling novels.
He completed a trilogy in 2010 about World War II in the European and North African theaters. A fourth WWII novel, titled The Final Storm, covers the end of the war in the Pacific, and was released on May 17, 2011.[1] He says he will then return to the Civil War, with a trilogy of novels set in the Western theater. After that, Shaara is considering going on to the Korean War or even the Vietnam War.
In 2003, Warner Brothers made the major motion picture Gods and Generals, which was based upon his book of the same title. Shaara's works have received three literary awards from the American Library Association. He has also been awarded the Lincoln Forum's "Richard Nelson Currant Award", New York Civil War Round Table's "Bell I. Wiley Award", and Florida State University's "Artes Award" as a Distinguished Alumnus.
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[edit] Works
[edit] Novels
- Gods and Generals (1996)—Civil War (1861–1865)
- The Last Full Measure (1998)—Civil War (1861–1865)
- Gone for Soldiers (2000)—US-Mexican War (1847–1848)
- Rise to Rebellion (2001)—Pre-American Revolutionary War (1770–1776)
- The Glorious Cause (2002)—American Revolutionary War (1776–1783)
- To the Last Man (2004)—World War I (1914–1918)
- Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields: Discovering America's Hallowed Ground (2006)
- The Rising Tide (2006)—World War II (1939–1945), Trilogy Part 1 of 3
- The Steel Wave (2008)—World War II (1939–1945), Trilogy Part 2 of 3
- No Less Than Victory (2009)—World War II (1939–1945), Trilogy Part 3 of 3
- The Final Storm (2011)—World War II (1939–1945), Pacific Theater
[edit] Upcoming Work
Shaara has said that he plans on writing a Civil War trilogy centered on the Western Theater of the war, which will include "Shiloh" in spring 2012, "Vicksburg" in spring 2013, and "Sherman's March" in 2014.[2] He notes one of the reasons for this is, "I’ve gotten a lot of letters from people in Tennessee and Mississippi saying, “You know, we’re kind of tired of hearing about just Robert E. Lee and Virginia.” (laughs) There’s a whole lot more story that no one seems to want to find out about. I’ll respond to that and do the best I can."
[edit] References
- "Interview with Jeff Shaara", by Gene Santoro, HistoryNet.com, September 2009.
- "Meet Jeff Shaara" official web site
- "Author Jeff Shaara" 3 interviews at BookReporter.com: May 16, 2008; November 10, 2006; October 2004.
[edit] External links
- Author's website
- Interview on The Rising Tide at the Pritzker Military Library
- Video or audio interview by Karen Saupe on Inner Compass
- Video interview on The Steel Wave
- Interview on his father and No Less Than Victory
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