Anthony Swofford, author of Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles (which became a hit film of the same name) will read from new work and sign books. He is also the author of Exit A: A Novel. He served in a U.S. Marine Corps Surveillance and Target Acquisition/Scout-Sniper platoon during the Gulf War. After the war, he was educated at American River College; the University of California, Davis; and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. He has taught at the University of Iowa and Lewis and Clark College. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The New York Times, Harper's, Men's Journal, The Iowa Review, and other publications. Swofford is a Michener-Copernicus Fellowship recipient and currently lives in New York.
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