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(1924-2019) Author, literary critic. Samuel Hynes was born in Chicago, Illinois, and died in Princeton, New Jersey. He earned a master’s and doctorate from Columbia University.

Full Name

Samuel Hynes

Locations

New York

Author's Timeline


1924

BIRTH

Samuel Lynn Hynes Jr. was born in Chicago, Illinois, on August 29, 1924.

1948

OTHER

Professor Hynes earned a master of arts degree at Columbia University in 1948.

1956

OTHER

Professor Hynes earned his doctorate at Columbia University in 1956.

1961

LITWORK

The Pattern of Hardy's Poetry
The University of North Carolina Press
0807808156 ISBN-13: 978-0807808153
Literary criticism.

1964

LITWORK

William Golding
Columbia University Press
0231026609 ISBN-13: 978-0231026604
Literary criticism.

1968

LITWORK

The Edwardian Turn of Mind
Princeton University Press
0691060312 ISBN-13: 978-0691060316
Literary criticism.

1977

LITWORK

The Auden Generation: Literature and Politics in England in the 1930s
Viking Press
0670140449 ISBN-13: 978-0670140442
Literary criticism.

1988

LITWORK

Flights of Passage: Reflection of a World War II Aviator
Naval Institute Press
087021215X, 9780870212154
Memoir.

1991

LITWORK

A War Imagined: First World War and English Culture
Atheneum
978-0-689-12128-9
Nonfiction.

1997

LITWORK

The Soldiers' Tale: Bearing Witness to Modern War
Penguin
0670865850 ISBN-13: 978-0670865857
Nonfiction.

2003

LITWORK

The Growing Seasons: An American Boyhood Before the War
Viking Adult
0670031933 ISBN-13: 978-0670031931
Nonfiction.

2014

LITWORK

The Unsubstantial Air: American Fliers in the First World War
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
0374278008 ISBN-13: 978-0374278007
Nonfiction.

2018

LITWORK

On War and Writing
University of Chicago Press
022646878X ISBN-13: 978-0226468785
Nonfiction.

2019

DEATH

Samuel Hynes died at his home in Princeton, New Jersey, on October 9, 2019.

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