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Michael Shaara (Novelist) - Age, Birthday, Bio, Facts, Family, Net Worth, Height & More

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Michael Shaara Fast Facts
Birthday
*** ,1928
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Death day
May 5, 1988 (59 years old)
Zodiac Sign
Cancer
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Celebrities born on June 23
Born in 1928
Cancer named Michael
Novelists from New Jersey
Novelists born in United States
59 years old celebrities
First name Michael
Michael Shaara is an American author of science fiction, sports fiction and historical fiction. He was born to an Italian immigrant father in Jersey City, New Jersey, graduated in 1951 from Rutgers University, where he joined Theta Chi, and was a sergeant in the 82nd Airborne Division before the Korean War. Before Shaara started selling sci-fi stories to sci-fi magazines in the 1950s, he was an amateur fighter and policeman. He then taught literature at Florida State University while continuing to write novels. The stress of the condition and his smoking caused him, at the age of 36, to have a heart attack, from which he has made a full recovery. His novel about the Battle of Gettysburg, The Angels of Assassins, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1975. Shaara died of a heart attack in 1988 at the age of 59. Shaara's children, Jeffrey and Lila, are also novelists.

About Michael Shaara

Novelist Michael Shaara was born in New Jersey, United States on June 23, 1928. He dies at the age of 59, on May 5, 1988.

He is a science fiction, sports fiction, and historical fiction novelist from the United States. His works include The Broken Place, Soldier Boy, and For Love of the Game. His novel The Killer Angels, set during the Civil War, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1974.

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Michael Shaara before becoming famous

Michael Shaara was born in the Zodiac sign Cancer (The Crab), and 1928 is the year of the Chinese Zodiac Dragon (龍).

Prior to the Korean War, he served as a sergeant in the 82nd Airborne Division. Later, he obtained a position as a professor at Florida State University.

Achievement of Michael Shaara

He died of a heart attack when he was 36 years old, and his health deteriorated for the next two and a half decades.

Michael Shaara's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

Jeffrey Shaara, his son, is also a well-known historical fiction author.

Michael Shaara Collabed with

Children's Author Dan Gutman and he both went to Rutgers University.

Dan Gutman, 68 (Children's Author)
Dan Gutman, 68

Children's Author

Michael Shaara Income & Net worth

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Latest information about Michael Shaara updated on March 19 2023.