Jeff Shaara

Birth Name:

Jeffrey M. Shaara

Birth Place:

New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States

Profession

Writer, Actor, Producer

Named to serve on the Board of Trustees for the Civil War Preservation Trust in 2007, he decided to donate all the royalties from his first non-fiction book "Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields" to battlefield preservation
Won the Boyd Award for Excellence in Military Fiction for the second time for "To the Last Man․"
His debut novel won the American Library Association's Boyd Award
Earned his degree in Criminology at Florida State University
After author Michael Shaara's death in 1988, he sold his business and took over his father's estate
Though he had no prior writing experience, his first book, "Gods and Generals," a prequel to his father's classic "The Killer Angels," remained on the New York Times Bestseller List for 15 weeks
Started a rare coin business when he was 16, which moved from his home to a retail store, then to Tampa, Fla․, where he became one of the best known coin and precious-metals dealers in the state
Stated that his writing process for each book consists of about one year of research and six months of writing
His novels are in the historical fiction genre and generally center on military conflicts
Started building a house for himself in Gettysburg, Pa

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