AFS presents two Texas writer screenings this July: HORTON FOOTE: THE ROAD TO HOME and THE WAR AND PEACE OF TIM O’BRIEN with special guests at both screenings.

We will be joined by author Tim O’Brien and director Aaron Matthews for this special screening of the new film documenting the National Book Award winner’s arduous journey through the writing process of his latest work, his first in twenty years and an immensely painful meditation about a subject he knows only too well—war.

Tim O’Brien has been called “the best American writer of his generation,” and “our poet laureate of war.” A Vietnam veteran, and National Book Award-winner, O’Brien is one of the great voices in modern American literature. The Library of Congress named his groundbreaking novel about the Vietnam War, “The Things They Carried,” one of the 65 most influential books in American history.

Tim O’Brien is the 2012 recipient of the Texas Writer Award, formerly known as the Bookend Award, which is given to a Texas writer in recognition of outstanding contributions to Texas literature.