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A memoirist is really like any other con man; if he's convincing, he's home. If he isn't, it doesn't really matter whether it happened, he hasn't succeeded in making it feel convincing.

Samuel Hynes

When you're writing a book that is going to be a narrative with character and events, you're walking very close to fiction.... In the end it comes down to the readers. If they believe you, you're OK.

Samuel Hynes

It isn't often that a writer of superlative skills knows enough about flying to write well about it.

Samuel Hynes

Samuel Hynes

Samuel Hynes

Born: August 29, 1924

Died: October 9, 2019 (aged 95)

Bio: Samuel Hynes was an author born in Chicago. He won a Robert F. Kennedy Book Award for The Soldiers' Tale in 1998 and attended the University of Minnesota and Columbia University.

Known for:

War Imagined (1990)
Flights of Passage (1988)
The Edwardian Turn of Mind (1968)

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