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James Hynes (born August 23, 1955) is an American novelist.

Biography

Hynes was born in Okemos, Michigan, and grew up in Big Rapids, Michigan. He currently resides in Austin, Texas, where he has taught creative writing at the University of Texas. He has also taught at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, the University of Michigan, Miami University, and Grinnell College. Hynes received a B.A. in philosophy from the University of Michigan and an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa.

His first novel, The Wild Colonial Boy, deals with terrorism in Northern Ireland. Hynes' three subsequent books, Publish and Perish, The Lecturer's Tale and Kings of Infinite Space, combine satire and horror. His novel Next was published in 2010, and his sixth book, Sparrow, a historical novel about a slave in Late Antiquity, was published in 2023 in Britain, Canada, the United States, and Germany. His reviews and literary essays have appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times, Boston Review, and the online magazine Salon. In the 1980s he wrote about television for the Michigan Voice, Mother Jones, and In These Times.

Works

• The Wild Colonial Boy (Atheneum, 1990)
• Publish and Perish: Three Tales of Tenure and Terror (Picador USA, 1997)
• The Lecturer's Tale (Picador USA, 2001)
• Kings of Infinite Space (St. Martin's Press, 2004)
• Next (Little, Brown and Company, 2010)
• Sparrow (Picador, 2023)

References

1. ^ Contemporary Authors Online, Thomson Gale, 2004.
2. "Writers' Workshop - The University of Iowa". Archived from the original on 2008-04-24. Retrieved 2008-04-30.
3. "Department of English: Creative Writing: Short Courses". Archived from the original on 2008-07-05. Retrieved 2008-04-30.
4. "Salon Search". Archived from the original on 2011-05-20. Retrieved 2008-04-30.

External links

• Official website

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• Novelists from Michigan
• University of Texas at Austin faculty
• University of Michigan faculty
• Miami University faculty
• University of Iowa faculty
• University of Iowa alumni
• University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts alumni
• University of Michigan fellows
• Grinnell College faculty
• Writers from Austin, Texas
• 1955 births
• Living people
• Iowa Writers' Workshop alumni
• People from Big Rapids, Michigan
• 21st-century American novelists
• American male novelists
• Believer Book Award winners
• People from Okemos, Michigan
• 20th-century American male writers
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• Novelists from Texas
• Novelists from Ohio
• Novelists from Iowa