Samuel Hynes

Samuel Hynes (born August 29, 1924) is an author. He won a Robert F. Kennedy Book Award for The Soldiers' Tale in 1998. S Hynes was born in Chicago. 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]

Hynes is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature emeritus at Princeton University. His other books include A War Imagined, and The Growing Seasons.[1] The Unsubstantial Air: American Fliers in the First World War published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in October 2014.[3]

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.[4][5]

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