Tim O'Brien (Twayne's United States Authors Series, No 691) by Tobey Herzog

This is the O'Brien book. Herzog knows O'Brien and his work and I learned quite a bit from his scholarship.

Writing Vietnam, Writing Life: Caputo, Heinemann, O'Brien, Butler by Tobey Herzog

Phillip Caputo, Larry Heinemann, Tim O’Brien, and Robert Olen Butler: four young midwestern Americans coming of age during the 1960s who faced a difficult personal decision—whether or not to fight in Vietnam. After coming home, these four veterans became prizewinning authors telling the war stories and life stories of soldiers and civilians. The four extended conversations included in Writing Vietnam, Writing Life feature revealing personal stories alongside candid assessments of each author’s distinct roles as son, soldier, writer, and teacher of creative writing.

A Trauma Artist: Tim O'Brien and the Fiction of Vietnam
by Mark A. Heberle

Soldiers Once and Still: Ernest Hemingway, James Salter, and Tim O'Brien by Alex Vernon

Tim O'Brien: A Critical Companion (Critical Companions to Popular Contemporary Writers) by Patrick Smith

Patriots: The Vietnam War Remembered from All Sides by Christian G. Appy

Tim O'Brien in the Classroom: This Too Is True: Stories Can Save Us (The Ncte High School Literature) by Barry Gilmore and Alexander Kaplan

The Things They Carried - Activity Pack