Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Michael_Shaara> ?p ?o }
- Michael_Shaara abstract "Michael Shaara (June 23, 1928 – May 5, 1988) was an American author of science fiction, sports fiction, and historical fiction. He was born to Italian immigrant parents (the family name was originally spelled Sciarra, which in Italian is pronounced in a similar way) in Jersey City, New Jersey, graduated during 1951 from Rutgers University, where he joined Theta Chi, and served as a sergeant in the 82nd Airborne Division prior to the Korean War.Before Shaara began selling science fiction stories to fiction magazines during the 1950s, he was an amateur boxer and police officer. He later taught literature at Florida State University while continuing to write fiction. The stress of this and his cigarette smoking caused him, at the early age of 36, to have a heart failure, from which he recovered completely. His novel about the Battle of Gettysburg, The Killer Angels, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction during 1975. Shaara died of a heart failure in 1988.Shaara's son, Jeffrey Shaara, is also a popular writer of historical fiction; most notably sequels to his father's best-known novel. His most famous is the prequel to The Killer Angels, Gods and Generals. Jeffrey got Michael's last book, For Love of the Game, published three years after he died. Nowadays there is a Michael Shaara Award for Excellence in Civil War Fiction, established by Jeffrey Shaara, awarded yearly at Gettysburg College.Shaara's daughter, Lila Shaara, is also a novelist.".
- Michael_Shaara birthDate "1928-06-23".
- Michael_Shaara birthPlace Jersey_City,_New_Jersey.
- Michael_Shaara birthPlace New_Jersey.
- Michael_Shaara birthYear "1928".
- Michael_Shaara deathDate "1988-05-05".
- Michael_Shaara deathYear "1988".
- Michael_Shaara wikiPageExternalLink print.
- Michael_Shaara wikiPageExternalLink the_michaelshaaraprize.dot.
- Michael_Shaara wikiPageExternalLink michael_shaara.asp.
- Michael_Shaara wikiPageExternalLink 2up.
- Michael_Shaara wikiPageExternalLink 2up.
- Michael_Shaara wikiPageExternalLink 2up.
- Michael_Shaara wikiPageID "399823".
- Michael_Shaara wikiPageLength "4480".
- Michael_Shaara wikiPageOutDegree "46".
- Michael_Shaara wikiPageRevisionID "681778035".
- Michael_Shaara wikiPageWikiLink 1975_in_literature.
- Michael_Shaara wikiPageWikiLink 82nd_Airborne_Division.
- Michael_Shaara wikiPageWikiLink Alpha_9.
- Michael_Shaara wikiPageWikiLink Battle_of_Gettysburg.
- Michael_Shaara wikiPageWikiLink Category:1928_births.
- Michael_Shaara wikiPageWikiLink Category:1988_deaths.
- Michael_Shaara wikiPageWikiLink Category:20th-century_American_novelists.
- Michael_Shaara wikiPageWikiLink Category:American_historical_novelists.
- Michael_Shaara wikiPageWikiLink Category:American_male_novelists.
- Michael_Shaara wikiPageWikiLink Category:American_male_short_story_writers.
- Michael_Shaara wikiPageWikiLink Category:American_people_of_Italian_descent.
- Michael_Shaara wikiPageWikiLink Category:American_science_fiction_writers.
- Michael_Shaara wikiPageWikiLink Category:American_short_story_writers.
- Michael_Shaara wikiPageWikiLink Category:Florida_State_University_faculty.
- Michael_Shaara wikiPageWikiLink Category:People_from_Jersey_City,_New_Jersey.
- Michael_Shaara wikiPageWikiLink Category:Pulitzer_Prize_for_Fiction_winners.
- Michael_Shaara wikiPageWikiLink Category:Rutgers_University_alumni.
- Michael_Shaara wikiPageWikiLink Category:Writers_from_New_Jersey.
- Michael_Shaara wikiPageWikiLink Florida_State_University.
- Michael_Shaara wikiPageWikiLink For_Love_of_the_Game.
- Michael_Shaara wikiPageWikiLink Gettysburg_(1993_film).
- Michael_Shaara wikiPageWikiLink Gettysburg_College.
- Michael_Shaara wikiPageWikiLink Gods_and_Generals_(novel).
- Michael_Shaara wikiPageWikiLink Historical_fiction.
- Michael_Shaara wikiPageWikiLink Jeff_Shaara.
- Michael_Shaara wikiPageWikiLink Jeffrey_Shaara.
- Michael_Shaara wikiPageWikiLink Jersey_City.
- Michael_Shaara wikiPageWikiLink Jersey_City,_New_Jersey.
- Michael_Shaara wikiPageWikiLink Korean_War.
- Michael_Shaara wikiPageWikiLink List_of_science_fiction_authors.
- Michael_Shaara wikiPageWikiLink Michael_Shaara_Award_for_Excellence_in_Civil_War_Fiction.
- Michael_Shaara wikiPageWikiLink Myocardial_infarction.
- Michael_Shaara wikiPageWikiLink New_Jersey.
- Michael_Shaara wikiPageWikiLink Pulitzer_Prize_for_Fiction.
- Michael_Shaara wikiPageWikiLink Rutgers_University.
- Michael_Shaara wikiPageWikiLink Sequel.
- Michael_Shaara wikiPageWikiLink Soldier_Boy_(novel).
- Michael_Shaara wikiPageWikiLink Soldier_Boy_(short_story).
- Michael_Shaara wikiPageWikiLink Sports_journalism.
- Michael_Shaara wikiPageWikiLink Sportswriting.
- Michael_Shaara wikiPageWikiLink The_Broken_Place.
- Michael_Shaara wikiPageWikiLink The_Killer_Angels.
- Michael_Shaara wikiPageWikiLink The_Noah_Conspiracy.
- Michael_Shaara wikiPageWikiLinkText "Michael J. Shaara".
- Michael_Shaara wikiPageWikiLinkText "Michael Shaara".
- Michael_Shaara wikiPageWikiLinkText "Michael".
- Michael_Shaara wikiPageWikiLinkText "Shaara, Michael".
- Michael_Shaara dateOfBirth "1928-06-23".
- Michael_Shaara dateOfDeath "1988-05-05".
- Michael_Shaara hasPhotoCollection Michael_Shaara.
- Michael_Shaara id "Shaara,+Michael".
- Michael_Shaara name "Michael Shaara".
- Michael_Shaara name "Shaara, Michael".
- Michael_Shaara placeOfBirth Jersey_City,_New_Jersey.
- Michael_Shaara placeOfBirth New_Jersey.
- Michael_Shaara shortDescription "Science fiction author and historical novelist".
- Michael_Shaara wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Authority_control.
- Michael_Shaara wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Gutenberg_author.
- Michael_Shaara wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Isfdb_name.
- Michael_Shaara wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Librivox_author.
- Michael_Shaara wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Persondata.
- Michael_Shaara wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:PulitzerPrize_Fiction_1951–1975.
- Michael_Shaara wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Reflist.
- Michael_Shaara description "Science fiction author and historical novelist".
- Michael_Shaara description "Science fiction author and historical novelist".
- Michael_Shaara subject Category:1928_births.
- Michael_Shaara subject Category:1988_deaths.
- Michael_Shaara subject Category:20th-century_American_novelists.
- Michael_Shaara subject Category:American_historical_novelists.
- Michael_Shaara subject Category:American_male_novelists.
- Michael_Shaara subject Category:American_male_short_story_writers.
- Michael_Shaara subject Category:American_people_of_Italian_descent.
- Michael_Shaara subject Category:American_science_fiction_writers.
- Michael_Shaara subject Category:American_short_story_writers.
- Michael_Shaara subject Category:Florida_State_University_faculty.
- Michael_Shaara subject Category:People_from_Jersey_City,_New_Jersey.
- Michael_Shaara subject Category:Pulitzer_Prize_for_Fiction_winners.
- Michael_Shaara subject Category:Rutgers_University_alumni.
- Michael_Shaara subject Category:Writers_from_New_Jersey.
- Michael_Shaara hypernym Author.
- Michael_Shaara type Agent.
- Michael_Shaara type Article.
- Michael_Shaara type Person.