Author Jim Lynch

JIM LYNCH has received the H. L. Mencken Award and a Livingston Award for Young Journalists, among other national honors. His most recent novel, Border Songs, won the Washington State Book Award and is currently being adapted for television.

Biography

Jim Lynch has won national journalism awards and published short fiction in literary magazines, and he spent four years as the Puget Sound reporter for the Oregonian. A Washington State native, Lynch currently writes and sails from his home in Olympia, where he lives with his wife and daughter. The Highest Tide is his first novel.

Author biography courtesy of Bloomsbury USA.

Good To Know

In our interview, Lynch shared some fun facts about himself:

"As a twenty year old, I spent a summer as a maid changing beds at the Old Faithful Inn in Yellowstone National Park so that I could climb the Tetons on my days off."

"My only stint in jail was the result of jaywalking."

"I'm pretty short, but I've run into more than my share of ceiling fans."

"I love to sail, even when there's no wind."

"I've got an irrational allegiance to the Seattle Sonics basketball team."

"I love to hike with my wife in the rain and watch comedies with my 12-year-old daughter."