Lance Corporal Anthony Swofford, author of the popular autobiographical story

Jarhead, served as Scout Sniper with the Surveillance and Target Acquisition Platoon of

2nd Battalion 7th Marines during the Gulf War. Following his military service, he

studied English at Sacramento's American River College and subsequently earned his

Barchelor's degree in English at U.C. Davis. He attended the exclusive University of

Iowa Writers' Workshop and obtained a Master of Fine Arts in Writing.

While receiving critical acclaim for Jarhead, Swofford taught English at Lewis and Clark

College and St. Mary's College of California. After his story was adapted for the screen

in a film directed by Sam Mendes, Swofford moved to New York City. His new novel,

Exit A, has just been released, but his writings have had widespread publication in

periodicals such as Harper's, Men's Journal and The Iowa Review.

Swofford is the recipient

of a prestigious Michener-Copernicus Fellowship and PEN Art of the Memoir Award.

We salute him with an "Ooo-rah!" and welcome him to the Literary Arts Festival of 2007!

Bibliography

Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles (2003)

Home to War: A History of the Vietnam Veterans' Movement, by Gerald Nicosia;

foreword by Anthony Swofford (2004)

Food and Booze: A Tin House Literary Feast, edited by Michelle Wildgen; contributing

author Anthony Swofford (2006)

Exit A: A Novel (2007)

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