James Hynes

James Hynes (born August 23, 1955) is an American novelist. He was born in Okemos, Michigan,[1] and grew up in Big Rapids, Michigan. He currently resides in Austin, Texas, where he has taught creative writing at the University of Texas.[1] He has also taught at the Iowa Writers' Workshop,[2] the University of Michigan, Miami University,[1] and Grinnell College.[3] 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.[1]

For the British businessman, see James P. Hynes.
James Hynes
Born (1955-08-23) August 23, 1955
Okemos, Michigan, U.S.
OccupationNovelist
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Iowa
University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
GenreFicton
Website
Official website

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 most recent novel, Next, was published in 2010. His reviews and literary essays have appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times, Boston Review,[1] and the online magazine Salon.com.[4] In the 1980s he wrote about television for the Michigan Voice, Mother Jones, and In These Times.[1]

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)
gollark: Bold of you to assume I have a bunker.
gollark: It's a joke. It probably won't. Not for this reason anyway.
gollark: After society falls, only the strong survive... and also those with toilet paper for some reason.
gollark: Perhaps they have developed a way to transmute toilet paper into food.
gollark: Disguise yourself as an old person.

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.
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