J. Timothy Hunt

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name = James Timothy Hunt


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pseudonym = Tim Beiser
birthdate = birth date and age|1959|4|1
birthplace = Los Angeles, California, United States
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occupation = Author, journalist
nationality = American/Canadian
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genre = Non-fiction, children's fiction, science fiction
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website = http://www.jtimothyhunt.com/

James Timothy Hunt (born April 1, 1959) is an American-Canadian author and journalist.

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. During his 16 years as a resident of New York City resident, he became known as a playwright and author of science fiction short stories. His plays "Angel Fire" and "The Lunatic" were presented Off-Off Broadway. His short fiction can be found in the anthologies "Lovers and Other Monsters" and "Don't Open This Book", both published by Doubleday. He has been writer in residence three times at the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico, and was the founder of The Writers’ Workout creative writing studio in New York. He received a B.A.A. in Journalism from Toronto’s Ryerson University in 1999.

Hunt has written for many publications in Canada, including "National Post Business", "Toronto Life", "Elm Street", "Reader's Digest," and "Saturday Night". His profile of "The New Yorker" magazine's Malcolm Gladwell won three North American journalism awards and was nominated in 2000 for a Canadian National Magazine Award. A feature article in "Saturday Night" in June 2000 about Owens Wiwa, brother of controversially-executed Nigerian environmentalist Ken Saro-Wiwa, was expanded in 2005 into a book about the ordeal, "The Politics of Bones".

Hunt was recognized in 2005 by the 29th annual National Magazine Awardscite web |title=29th Annual National Magazine Awards |url=http://www.magazine-awards.com/multimedia/nmaf/download_doc/29th_Annual_Nominees.pdf |format=PDF] for an article in "Saturday Night" about his own same-sex marriage.cite web |last=Hunt |first=J. Timothy |title=For Better or Worse? |work=Saturday Night |url=http://www.saturdaynight.ca/feature/article.cfm?listing_id=57 |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20050618082533/www.saturdaynight.ca/feature/article_print.cfm?listing_id=57 |archivedate=2005-06-21 |date=June 2005]

In 2007, Hunt began writing children's fiction for Tundra Books under the pseudonym Tim Beiser. He became a Canadian citizen in 2004, and resides in Toronto, Canada, and Grignan, France, with his husband, Morton Beiser and twin sons.

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