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Jim Lynch
Author Biography
(from author’s website:
www.thehighesttide.com)
I grew up on a lake near Seattle, and explored
Puget Sound as a child during weekend trips aboard my parents’ sailboat.
Later, I butchered salmon in Alaska and drove a laundry truck in
Yellowstone while falling in love with mountaineering and the rowdy
novels of Northwest writers Ken Kesey and Tom Robbins.
After graduating from the University of Washington in 1985, I found my
first reporting job in the tiny Alaskan fishing town of Petersburg. From
there, I fled to Washington, D.C., where I wrote columns for syndicated
muckraker Jack Anderson and short fiction for literary magazines.
When I returned to the Northwest, it was to Spokane, where my stories
about the militia movement and the Hanford Nuclear Reservation won
national honors including the Livingston Young Journalist Award. I later
wrote for The Seattle Times and served four years as the Portland
Oregonian’s Puget Sound reporter.
Along the way, my hobby/obsession was always fiction. I'd always hoped
to write a novel with Puget Sound as a backdrop, but with "The Highest
Tide", I could actually plunk the reader in the same vivacious waters
and mudflats that I enjoy with my wife, Denise, and daughter, Grace, on
the outskirts of Olympia.
Author
Interviews
Online Interview with Jim
Lynch, September 9, 2005 at Bookreporter.com
http://www.bookreporter.com/authors/au-lynch-jim.asp
Newspaper interview with Jim Lynch,
9/6/05
http://www.theolympian.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050906/LIVING01/50906021/1103/NEWS02
Revised
02/23/07
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