| LC control no. | n 2002061003 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PS3619.W64 |
| Personal name heading | Swofford, Anthony |
| Other standard no. | http://dbpedia.org/resource/Anthony_Swofford Q2852984 http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2852984 29778265 http://viaf.org/viaf/29778265 483890 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/483890 nm1666018 p410392 73655 573686 216426 179/000168672 97242 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Associated place | Iowa City (Iowa) Portland (Or.) New York (N.Y.) Morgantown (W. Va.) |
| Birth date | 1970-08-12 |
| Place of birth | Fairfield (Calif.) |
| Field of activity | Fiction Creative nonfiction Autobiographies Personal narratives Creative writing (Higher education) |
| Affiliation | West Virginia University Lewis & Clark College (Portland, Or.) University of Iowa United States. Marine Corps. Marine Regiment, 7th. Battalion, 2nd. Surveillance and Target Acquisition Platoon |
| Profession or occupation | Marines University and college faculty members Creative writing teachers English teachers Writers College teachers Authors |
| Found in | Swofford, Anthony. Jarhead, 2003: CIP t.p. (Anthony Swofford) galley (Lance corporal in Surveillance and Target Acquisition Platoon of the Second Battalion, Seventh Marines) Simon & Schuster authors website, March 29, 2018 (Anthony Swofford 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. A Michener-Copernicus Fellowship recipient, he lives in New York.) Wikipedia, March 29, 2018 (Anthony Swofford (born August 12, 1970) is an American writer and U.S. Marine, best known for his 2003 book Jarhead, based heavily on his accounts of various situations encountered in the Persian Gulf War; born Fairfield, California; Master of Fine Arts from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, at the University of Iowa; served as an English professor at Lewis and Clark College and St. Mary's College of California; currently teaches creative writing at West Virginia University) |
| Associated language | eng |
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