Jeffrey Shaara
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Jeff Shaara at a book signing in Dallas, TX.
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February 21, 1952 New Brunswick, New Jersey |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | American |
| Ethnicity | Italian American |
| Alma mater | Florida State University |
| Genre | Historical fiction |
| Notable works | Gods and Generals, The Last Full Measure |
| Relatives | Michael Shaara (Father, deceased), Lila Shaara (Sister) |
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Jeffrey M. "Jeff" Shaara (born February 21, 1952) is an American novelist, the son of Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Shaara.
Jeffrey Shaara was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey and grew up in Tallahassee, Florida. He graduated from Florida State University in 1974 with a degree in Criminology and lives in Tallahassee.
He wrote Gods and Generals and The Last Full Measure, which are the prequel and sequel, respectively, to his father Michael's award-winning novel The Killer Angels. Jeff followed his father's footsteps upon the latter's death, writing historical fiction and documenting the American wars and their most-historically-relevant characters. In total, Jeff has penned thirteen New York Times bestselling novels.
He completed a trilogy in 2010 about World War II in the European and North African theaters. A fourth World War II novel, titled The Final Storm, covers the end of the war in the Pacific, and was released on May 17, 2011.
Shaara has received the W.Y. Boyd Literary Award for Excellence in Military Fiction from the American Library Association in 2005 for To The Last Man: A Novel of The First World War and in 1997 for Gods and Generals. The American Library Association's Reference and Users Services Association recognized The Steel Wave as a 2009 Notable Book.
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