James Hynes

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. the University of Michigan, Miami University, 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. 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)