Samuel Hynes
{{Short description|American author (1924–2019)}}
Samuel Lynn Hynes (August 29, 1924 – October 9, 2019) was an American author. He won a Robert F. Kennedy Book Award for The Soldiers' Tale in 1998.
Biography
Hynes was born in Chicago, Illinois. He attended the University of Minnesota and Columbia University.
Hynes served as a Marine Corps pilot from 1943 until 1946 and in 1952 and 1953. In a memoir, "Flights of Passage," Hynes explored in detail his pilot training and subsequent service in the Pacific during World War II. Hynes, Samuel (1988). Flights of Passage. US Naval Inst. 1988. He received the Distinguished Flying Cross. He also discussed his experiences as a pilot in the documentary series The War by Ken Burns (2007).[https://www.pbs.org/thewar/detail_5191.htm Sam Hynes] Burns interviewed Hynes again for The Vietnam War (2017), where Hynes discussed his experiences at Northwestern University during its anti-Vietnam War protests.
Hynes was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature emeritus at Princeton University. His other books include On War and Writing (University of Chicago Press, 2018), A War Imagined,{{cite book |last=Hynes|first=Samuel Lynn |title=A war imagined: the First World War and English culture|year=1991|publisher=Atheneum|isbn=978-0-689-12128-9}} The Growing Seasons{{cite web|url=http://www.bloomsbury.com/author/samuel-hynes|title=Samuel Hynes|publisher=Bloomsbury|accessdate=21 November 2013}} and The Unsubstantial Air: American Fliers in the First World War published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in October 2014.[https://www.npr.org/2014/12/19/371651268/5-under-the-radar-reads-from-librarian-nancy-pearl "Five Under-The-Radar Reads From Librarian Nancy Pearl," NPR, December 19, 2014.]
Family
Alex Preston (born 1979), British author and journalist, and his brother Samuel Preston (1982) lead singer of English band The Ordinary Boys, are among his grandsons.{{cite news|author=Carole Cadwalladr|author-link=Carole Cadwalladr|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/jul/19/preston-ordinary-boys-chanelle |title=Interview with Preston, former singer with the Ordinary Boys and now launching a solo career |work=The Observer |location=UK |accessdate=22 October 2011 |date=19 July 2009}}{{cite web|url=http://www.juliehamill.com/post/41897602444/fifteen-minutes-with-samuel-preston|title=Fifteen minutes with Samuel Preston, singer_guitarist_songwriter with The Ordinary Boys and fan of Morrissey|work=Julie Hamill |date=February 20, 2013|publisher=Julie Hamill|accessdate=7 June 2014}}
Death
Hynes died of congestive heart failure at the age of 95 in his home in Princeton, New Jersey, on October 9, 2019.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/18/books/samuel-hynes-dead.html |title=Samuel Hynes, Professor Whose Books Taught Lessons of War, Dies at 95 |work=The New York Times |date=18 October 2019}}
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Category:Military personnel from Illinois
Category:United States Marine Corps pilots of World War II
Category:Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature
Category:Recipients of the Distinguished Flying Cross (United States)
Category:MacDowell Colony fellows
Category:Princeton University faculty
Category:American male writers