Michael Shaara

In the early 1950's, Michael Shaara (Author) published numerous award-winning science fiction stories in the most popular pulp magazines of the day. He later began writing straight fiction and published more than seventy short stories in such magazines as The Saturday Evening Post, Cosmopolitan, Redbook, Playboy and many others. His first novel, The Broken Palace, was published in 1968. But it was a simple family vacation to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania in 1966 that gave him inspiration for his greatest achievement, The Killer Angels.

After seven years of research and revision, and then two years of rejections from publishers, The Killer Angels was finally published by Random House, later winning the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Shaara went on to write two more novels, The Noah Conspiracy and For Love of the Game, which was published posthumously after his untimely death in 1988.

It was Shaara's son Jeff who found the manuscript of For Love of the Game among his father's many works, thus ensuring another piece of the Michael Shaara legacy.