American author, born on June 23, 1928 in Jersey City, USA, to an Italian immigrant father. He received his BA in 1951 from Rutgers University, and then did some graduate studies at Columbia University and the University of Vermont. He served as a sergeant in the US 82nd Air...Read more Division before the Korean War. He wrote science fiction short stories, and taught creative writing and literature at Florida State University in Tallahassee in 1961. He won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Killer Angels in 1975, which was adapted into the film Gettysburg (1993). He died on May 5, 1988 in Tallahassee, Florida, of a heart attack at the age of 59.
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American author, born on June 23, 1928 in Jersey City, USA, to an Italian immigrant father. He received his BA in 1951 from Rutgers University, and then did some graduate studies...Read more at Columbia University and the University of Vermont. He served as a sergeant in the US 82nd Air Division before the Korean War. He wrote science fiction short stories, and taught creative writing and literature at Florida State University in Tallahassee in 1961. He won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Killer Angels in 1975, which was adapted into the film Gettysburg (1993). He died on May 5, 1988 in Tallahassee, Florida, of a heart attack at the age of 59.