Anthony Swofford

ANTHONY SWOFFORD served in a U.S. Marine Corps Surveillance and Target Acquisition/Scout-Sniper platoon during the Gulf War. After the war, he was educated at American River College; the University of California, Davis; and the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The New York Times, Harper's, Men's Journal, The Iowa Review, and other publications and he is the author of Jarhead, a major New York Times bestseller and the basis for the movie of the same name. His most recent work is the critically-acclaimed memoir, Hotels, Hospitals, and Jails.