The Killer Angels: A Novel of the Civil War -- Michael Shaara, Hardcover

Author: Michael Shaara
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 11/02/2004
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.02lbs
Size: 8.06h x 5.70w x 1.07d
ISBN: 9780679643241

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.7
Point Value: 15
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 10839 / Killer Angels


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 05/15/2005 pg. 1647

About the Author
Michael Shaara was born in Jersey City in 1929 and graduated from Rutgers University in 1951. His early science fiction short stories were published in Galaxy magazine in 1952. He later began writing other works of fiction and published more than seventy short stories in many magazines, including The Saturday Evening Post, Cosmopolitan, and Redbook. His first novel, The Broken Place, was published in 1968. But it was a simple family vacation to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, in 1966 that gave him the inspiration for his greatest achievement, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Killer Angels, published in 1974. Michael Shaara went on to write two more novels, The Noah Conspiracy and For Love of the Game, which was published posthumously after his death in 1988.