Karl Marlantes
1944
Karl Marlantes is a reputed American novelist and a veteran of the Vietnam War, who is famous for writing war stories. He has written a few standalone books in his career, which consist of the widely successful novels, What It Is Like to Go to War and Matterhorn. Marlantes has won several prestigious awards for both the books. He began his career in 2010 by writing the novel Matterhorn. It is a story based on his experience in the Vietnam War. This novel has been declared by the NY Times as one of the most devastating and profound novels ever written on Vietnam. It won the Washington State Book Award in 2011 in the category of fiction. The plot of the book is based on author Marlantes’s personal combat experience at the time of the war. The next book written Marlantes is a biographical nonfiction work describing how his life changed after returning to the civilian life and the challenges he had to face in general while living as a modern veteran.