And John Hersey’s nominal World War II novel, “A Bell for Adano,” won the Pulitzer in 1945, just four years after America entered that war. To take just one recent example, Denis Johnson didn’t come out with “Tree of Smoke,” his Vietnam novel, until 2007.īut five years after the United States entered World War I, John Dos Passos had already written not one but two novels about it (“One Man’s Initiation: 1917” was published in 1920, and “Three And Crane’s not the only one to wait a generation before revisiting a war. Granted, those books dealt with a single event and not the steady drip-drip of an ongoing war: Pearl Harbor instead of WWII. 11, 2006, after all, there were already enough 9/11 novels to constitute a mini-genre. Where’s the first wave of Iraq War fiction? By Sept. Is upon us, it’s starting to feel like they had a point. At that early date the question seemed more than a little tongue in cheek - they acknowledged that Stephen Crane didn’t write “The Redīadge of Courage” until decades after the Civil War had ended, and their suggested Iraq titles included “The Oil Man and the Sea” - but now that the war’s five-year anniversary Way back in 2004, when the war in Iraq was barely a year old, Tom Miller and Gregory McNamee at Kirkus Reviews wondered why novelists hadn’t yet tackled it as a subject. Quick on the Trigger: Authors who wasted no time turning war into words.
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