Michael Shaara (1929-1988) was an American author best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Killer Angels, which tells the story of the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War. Shaara was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, and attended Rutgers University. He served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War, and afterwards worked as a teacher and a technical writer. He began writing fiction in the 1960s, and his first novel, The Broken Place, was published in 1968. The Killer Angels was published in 1974 and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1975. Shaara wrote several other novels, including The Noah Conspiracy and The Glittering Stone. He died in 1988 at the age of 59.
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