Tim O’Brien, the author of “The Things They Carried†and “In the Lake of the Woods,†among other works, has been named as the recipient of the 2013 Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing. The $100,000 prize is to be presented on Nov. 16 at the Library’s annual gala. Mr. O’Brien, whose work has often been inspired by his own experiences while serving in the Vietnam War, is the first fiction writer to win the award. In previous years it has been given to writers like James M. McPherson, a Civil War historian and Rick Atkinson, whose best-selling Liberation Trilogy chronicles the role of the United States military in World War II.
