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- He later taught literature at Florida State University while continuing to write fiction. The stress of this and his smoking caused him to have a heart attack at the early age of 36; from which he fully recovered. His novel about the Battle of Gettysburg, The Killer Angels, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1975.
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The Killer Angels is a 1974 historical novel by Michael Shaara that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1975.
- Michael Shaara
- 1974
Prize Winners The 1975 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Fiction For distinguished fiction published in book form during the year by an American author, preferably dealing with American life, One thousand dollars ($1,000).
Michael Shaara lived long enough to enjoy some of the glory of this, but not all. He died of a heart attack in 1988 at the age of 59, five years before the film came out. Here is the 1975 Pulitzer Prize jury report, written by Carlos Baker of Princeton University.
But to the surprise of many, including Shaara, it won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for Literature. Nevertheless, The Killer Angels remained a relatively obscure novel until it was adapted into the 1993 film Gettysburg, starring Martin Sheen and Jeff Daniels.
Shaara based The Killer Angels on the recollections of generals and ordinary soldiers instead of on scholarly interpretations of the Civil War. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Killer Angels in 1975. He died of a heart attack at age 59.
Jan 1, 2001 · Killer Angels by Michael Shaara is not a new book, in fact it won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction back in 1975. It's based on the Battle of Gettysburg and looks at the action through the eyes of the significant characters of the different stages of the short but bloody battle.
Nov 3, 2020 · One year after its publication, Michael Shaara’s The Killer Angels won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Shaara’s character-driven story of the battle of Gettysburg told from the perspective of some of the most important officers who fought there, is a powerful retelling of one of the most important single events in American history.
