James Hynes

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| name = James Hynes

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1955|08|23}}

| birth_place = Okemos, Michigan, U.S.

| occupation = Novelist

| alma_mater = University of Iowa (MFA)
College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (BA)

| genre = Fiction

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| awards =

| website = {{Official website|http://www.jameshynes.com}}

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

Biography

Hynes was born in Okemos, Michigan,Contemporary Authors Online, Thomson Gale, 2004. 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,{{Cite web |url=http://www.uiowa.edu/~iww/faculty/index.html |title=Writers' Workshop - The University of Iowa |access-date=2008-04-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080424052610/http://www.uiowa.edu/~iww/faculty/index.html |archive-date=2008-04-24 |url-status=dead }} the University of Michigan, Miami University, and Grinnell College.{{Cite web |url=http://www.grinnell.edu/academic/english/creative/shortcourses/ |title=Department of English: Creative Writing: Short Courses |access-date=2008-04-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080705215829/http://www.grinnell.edu/academic/english/creative/shortcourses/ |archive-date=2008-07-05 |url-status=dead }} 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.{{Cite web |url=http://search.salon.com/salonsearch.php?search=%22James+Hynes%22&breadth=salon |title=Salon Search |access-date=2008-04-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110520160307/http://search.salon.com/salonsearch.php?search=%22James+Hynes%22&breadth=salon |archive-date=2011-05-20 |url-status=dead }} In the 1980s he wrote about television for the Michigan Voice, Mother Jones, and In These Times.