Anthony Swofford


ANTHONY SWOFFORD (Author) is a New York Times best-selling author who served in a U.S. Marine Corps Surveillance and Target Acquisition/Scout-Sniper platoon during the first Gulf War. After the war, he was educated at the University of California, Davis and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. He has taught at Lewis & Clark College and Saint Mary's College. His Fiction and nonFiction have appeared in The New York Times, Harper's Magazine, The Guardian and other publications. A Michener-Copernicus Fellowship recipient, he lives in New York City, where he is at work on a novel.