Tim O'Brien

This collection of seven essays, like the carefully linked collection of vignettes within Tim OBriens most popular book The Things They Carried, contains multiple critical and biographical angles with recurring threads of life events, themes, characters, creative techniques, and references to all of OBriens books. Grounded in through research, Herzogs work illustrates how OBrien merges his life experiences with his creative production; he rarely misses an opportunity to introduce these critical life events into his writing.