Samuel Hynes
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
Samuel Hynes was born in Chicago, Illinois. He attended the University of Minnesota and Columbia University.[1]
Hynes served as a Marine Corps pilot from 1943 until 1946 and in 1952 and 1953. He received the Distinguished Flying Cross.[1] He discussed his experiences as a pilot in the documentary series The War by Ken Burns (2007).[2] 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,[3] The Growing Seasons[1] and The Unsubstantial Air: American Fliers in the First World War published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in October 2014.[4]
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.[5][6]
Death
Hynes died of congestive heart failure at the age of 95 in his home in Princeton, New Jersey, on October 9, 2019.[7]
References
- ^ a b c "Samuel Hynes". Bloomsbury. Retrieved 21 November 2013.
- ^ Sam Hynes
- ^ Hynes, Samuel Lynn (1991). A war imagined: the First World War and English culture. Atheneum. ISBN 978-0-689-12128-9.
- ^ "Five Under-The-Radar Reads From Librarian Nancy Pearl," NPR, December 19, 2014.
- ^ Carole Cadwalladr (19 July 2009). "Interview with Preston, former singer with the Ordinary Boys and now launching a solo career". The Observer. UK. Retrieved 22 October 2011.
- ^ "Fifteen minutes with Samuel Preston, singer_guitarist_songwriter with The Ordinary Boys and fan of Morrissey". Julie Hamill. February 20, 2013. Retrieved 7 June 2014.
- ^ "Samuel Hynes, Professor Whose Books Taught Lessons of War, Dies at 95". The New York Times. 18 October 2019.
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- 1924 births
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- Writers from Chicago
- Military personnel from Illinois
- American military personnel of World War II
- Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature
- Recipients of the Distinguished Flying Cross (United States)
- MacDowell Colony fellows
- Princeton University faculty
- American male writers
- University of Minnesota alumni
- Columbia University alumni