Samuel Hynes
Samuel Lynn Hynes 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.
Hynes served as a Marine Corps pilot from 1943 until 1946 and in 1952 and 1953. He received the Distinguished Flying Cross. He discussed his experiences as a pilot in the documentary series The War by Ken Burns. Burns interviewed Hynes again for The Vietnam War, 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, A War Imagined, The Growing Seasons and The Unsubstantial Air: American Fliers in the First World War published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in October 2014.
=Family=
Alex Preston, British author and journalist, and his brother Samuel Preston lead singer of English band The Ordinary Boys, are among his grandsons.
=Death=
Hynes died of congestive heart failure at the age of 95 in his home in Princeton, New Jersey, on October 9, 2019.
