Michael Shaara
Michael Shaara (1928-1988) was a writer of science fiction and historical fiction. Shaara began selling science fiction stories to pulp magazines in the 1950s. Shaara taught literature at
Florida State University. His novel about the
Battle of Gettysburg,
The Killer Angels, won the
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in
1975. Shaara died of a heart attack in 1988. Shaara's son,
Jeff, is also a popular writer of historical Fiction.