Samuel Hynes

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

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.