7/6/2023 0 Comments Winston groom books![]() ![]() Conversations with the Enemy was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1983. His novel Conversations with the Enemy (1982) follows an American Vietnam War soldier who escapes from a POW camp and takes a plane back to the United States only to be arrested fourteen years later for desertion. His next novel As Summers Die (1980) received better recognition. Better Times Than These was about a group of patriotic soldiers in the Vietnam War whose lives and patriotism both are shattered. Groom retired as a journalist at age 32, and began writing his first novel Better Times Than These which was published in 1978. ![]() newspaper covering police and courtroom activities. Upon his return from Vietnam, he worked as a reporter for the Washington Star, a Washington D.C. He served in the Army from 1965 to 1969, including a tour of duty in the Vietnam War. Groom attended the University of Alabama, was a member of Delta Tau Delta Fraternity and the Army ROTC, graduating in 1965. Groom's earliest ambition was to become a lawyer like his father, but instead, while a literary editor in college, he chose to become a writer. ![]() Winston Groom was born in Washington, D.C., and was raised in Mobile, Alabama where he attended University Military School (now known as UMS-Wright Preparatory School). ![]()
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