Biography on chris lynch

Biography

Dr. Lynch is a Professor of Political Science and the Department Head of The Political Science and Philosophy Department at Missouri State University. He received his B.A. from St. John’s College, Annapolis, and his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago’s Committee on Social Thought. He has taught at Boston College, the University of Dallas, the University of Chicago, and Carthage College, and he served as a senior adviser in the United States Department of State. Translator and editor of Machiavelli’s Art of War (University of Chicago, 2003) and co-editor of Principle and Prudence in Western Political Thought (SUNY, 2016), he recently completed Machiavelli on War (Cornell, 2023), a comprehensive treatment of the subject. He is now working on a translation of Machiavelli’s poems, stories, and comedic letters as well as a book on classical, biblical, and liberal alternatives to Machiavelli’s understanding of war and pe

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Chris Lynch

American writer of books for young people

For other people with the same name, see Christopher Lynch.

Chris Lynch (born July 2, 1962)^[1] is an American writer of books for young people. His works include Inexcusable, a finalist for the U.S. National Book Award for Young People's Literature, and Iceman,"The Right Fight", Shadow Boxer, Gold Dust, and Slot Machine, all ALA Best Books for Young Adults; Freewill was also a runner-up for the Michael L. Printz Award. Some of his works are intended for a high school level audience; some for children and younger teenagers.

His short story "The Pellet in the paint can" has been included in the collection Guys Write for Guys Read. (New York: Viking, 2005),^[2] and "Arrangements" was included in No Such Thing as the Real World (HarperCollins, 2009 ISBN 978-0-06-147058-5).

Lynch was born in Boston^[1] where he graduated from Emerson College^{[citation needed]} and t

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Chris Lynch Biography

A prolific author of unflinchingly realistic young adult novels, Chris Lynch was born July 2, 1962, in Boston, Massachusetts. His father, Edward, was a bus driver and died when Lynch was five; Dorothy Lynch supported her seven children working as a receptionist. Growing up in the Jamaica Plain district of Boston, Lynch found his experiences in a Catholic grade school gratifying but disliked the all-boys Catholic high school he later attended. Rebelling against a system that emphasized organized sports over the arts, he dropped out in his junior year.

Lynch began attending Boston University as a political science major, but a course in news writing shifted his focus and he transferred to Suffolk University to study journalism. Although he knew he wanted to write, he did not admit—even to himself— that he was drawn to fiction writing. After graduating in 1983, he spend several...

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