Which writer was a member of the Beat Generation, Allen Ginsberg or Tim O'Brien?
Tim O'Brien (author) William Timothy "Tim" O'Brien (born October 1, 1946) is an American novelist. He best known for his "The Things They Carried" (1990), a collection of linked short stories. These semi-autobiographical stories were inspired by O'Brien's experiences in the Vietnam War. In 2010 the "New York Times" described O'Brien's book as a Vietnam classic. In addition, he is known for his war novel, "Going After Cacciato" (1978), also about wartime Vietnam, and later novels about postwar lives of veterans.
Tim Moore (writer) Tim Moore (born 18 May 1964 in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire) is a British travel writer and humorist. He was educated at Latymer Upper School in Hammersmith. In addition to his nine published travelogues to date, his writings have appeared in various publications including "Esquire", "The Sunday Times", "The Independent", "The Observer" and the "Evening Standard". He was also briefly a journalist for the Teletext computer games magazine "Digitiser", under the pseudonym Mr Hairs, alongside Mr Biffo (aka comedy and sitcom writer Paul Rose.)