Five top New Orleans authors of 2014

Chris Waddington tagged five top New Orleans authors of 2014 for The Times-Picayune, including:Michael Pitre

Michael Pitre, a New Orleans writer and Iraq War veteran earned a glowing review in the New York Times for his fiction debut, "Fives and Twenty-Fives". Reviewer Michiko Kakutani described Pitre's book as "an unblinking, razor-edged portrait of the war."

In 2002, Pitre joined the Marines,