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.
Graham Allen (writer, academic) Graham Allen is a writer and academic from Cork city, Ireland. He is the author of two collections of poetry, "The Madhouse System" (2016) and "The One That Got Away" (2014). He is a former recipient of the Listowel Single Poem Prize, awarded each year at Listowel Writers' Week. As a literary critic, he has published numerous books, including "Harold Bloom: Towards a Poetics of Conflict" (1994), "Intertextuality" (2000), and "Roland Barthes" (2003).