James Timothy Hunt | |
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Born | Los Angeles, California, U.S. | April 1, 1959
Pen name | Tim Beiser |
Occupation | Author, journalist, script supervisor |
Nationality | American/Canadian |
Genre | Non-fiction, children's fiction, science fiction |
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James Timothy Hunt (born April 1, 1959) is an American-Canadian author, journalist, and script supervisor. He has also written children's books under the pen name Tim Beiser.
Hunt was born and raised in Los Angeles, California, and attended university in Montana, receiving a B.S. in Economics and Business Administration from Rocky Mountain College in 1981. He became a Canadian citizen in 2004, and resides in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and Grignan, France, with his husband, Morton Beiser and twin sons, Daniel and Rowan. [1]
Hunt is the author of eight published books. He has been nominated twice for Canada's Governor General's Awards, and four times for Canadian National Magazine Awards. He has received two Canada Council Grants for writing and has been writer in residence three times at the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico. [2] He received a B.A.A. in Journalism from Toronto's Ryerson University in 1999.
Hunt has written for several Canadian newspapers and magazines, including National Post Business , Toronto Life , Elm Street, Reader's Digest, and Saturday Night . A feature article in Saturday Night in June 2000 about Nigerian environmentalist Ken Saro-Wiwa was expanded in 2005 into the book The Politics of Bones .
In 2007, Hunt began writing children's fiction for Tundra Books under the pseudonym Tim Beiser.
Since 2013, Hunt as worked as a script supervisor, screenwriter, and actor in the film and television industry. [3] He holds a master's degree in film studies from Staffordshire University.
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