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Biography-
Gross, Terry. “Tim O’Brien on Late-in-Life Fatherhood and the Things He Carried from Vietnam.” NPR, NPR, 24 Feb. 2021, www.npr.org/2021/02/24/970880767/tim-obrien-on-late-in-life-fatherhood-and-the-things-he-carried-from-vietnam.
The Things They Carried: Tim O’Brien Biography | Study Guide | Cliffsnotes, Cliff Notes, www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/t/the-things-they-carried/tim-obrien-biography. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.
“Tim O’Brien Biography.” Chicago Public Library, 31 Oct. 2003, www.chipublib.org/tim-obrien-biography/.
“Tim O’Brien.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, inc., 27 Sept. 2025, www.britannica.com/biography/Tim-OBrien.
Literary Criticisms-
Behind Every Curtain is Another Trick- “Behind Every Curtain Is Another Trick.” Narrative, Magic, and Trauma, Ohio Link , May 2014, etd.ohiolink.edu/acprod/odb_etd/ws/send_file/send?accession=uthonors1513273387030866&disposition=inline. Accessed Dec. 2025.
How to tell a True War Story- “Calloway, Catherine, ‘How to Tell a True War Story’: Metafiction in 'the Things They Carried.'., Vol. 36, Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, June, 1995, Pp 249 Ff.” Montclair.edu, 2025, msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/vietnam/callowaythings.html?utm_
Morality and Pleasure- Bonney, Sarah. “Morality and Pleasure in Tim O’Brien’s the Things They Carried.” Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism, vol. 9, no. 1, 2016, scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1106&context=criterion.
Salvation, Storytelling, and Pilgrimage- Vernon, Alex. "Salvation, storytelling, and pilgrimage in Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried." Mosaic: A journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature, vol. 36, no. 4, Dec. 2003, pp. 171+. Gale Literature Resource Center, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A111695828/LitRC?u=coal19787&sid=bookmark-LitRC&xid=e83fdf00. Accessed 10 Nov. 2025
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