Famous american author's novels about fiction war tales or horror?
I have to do a term paper on a famous american writer and read two novels of their work.
I am interested in fiction novels about war or horror.
Have any suggestions?
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March 13th, 2010 at 11:51 am
Tim O’Brien is a decent author if you like war books, but I mostly answered because as fantastic a writer as Neil Gaiman is, he’s definitely NOT American. British. And I while I can see how American Gods kinda falls into the war category and kinda falls into the horror, his other books aren’t like that.
And if you really want to do a horror writer? H.P. Lovecraft.
And he’s had plenty of books written about him, so it’d be easy getting the nonfiction reference sources.
March 13th, 2010 at 11:51 am
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut (check the spelling of his last name)
it is a fantastic book about the bombing of Dresden.
March 13th, 2010 at 11:51 am
Joseph Heller
Ernest Hemingway
Dalton Trumbo
Charles Frazier
Tim O’Brien
James Jones
…..
March 13th, 2010 at 11:51 am
Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo
March 13th, 2010 at 11:51 am
Paul Auster: In the Country of Last Things
Mark Danielewski: House of Leaves
Neil Gaiman: American Gods
SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut
The Red Badge of Courage
1895
by Stephen Crane
Tales
1952
by Edgar Allan Poe
March 13th, 2010 at 11:51 am
MacKinlay Kantor - Andersonville
Written in 1955, this novel about the infamous Confederate prisoner of war camp during the Civil War won a Pullitzer Prize in 1956 - a very good book.