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Jim Heynen Iowa 1940 • Amerikaanse dichter en prozaschrijver zoek in hele site: the ledge - flash versie* *	Best known for his short-short stories about 'the boys', Jim Heynen has published widely as a writer of poems, novels, nonfiction, and short fiction. His stories about the boys have been featured often on National Public Radio's All Things Considered, as well as on radio in both Sweden and Denmark. (Minnesota astronaut George Pinky Nelson took a taped collection of the stories for bedtime listening on his last space mission. ) Jim Heynen was born on a farm in northwest Iowa in one of the last areas of the state to get electricity, and he attended one of the last one-room schoolhouses in the state. As a youngster, his main non-work activities were 4-H, piano, and voice – a boy soprano who sang frequently at weddings, funerals, and holiday celebrations. He attended Hull Western Christian High, then two years at Dordt College in Sioux Center, Iowa, before going on to receive his B.A. at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. There he was active in choir and drama. Among his many roles, he played	Claudius in Hamlet during his senior year, the same year he won the all-college literary contest for a short story set on an Iowa farm. He graduated at the age of 20 with a double major in speech/drama and English. After a short career teaching high school English and speech, he went off for graduate work at the University of Iowa, concentrating in English Renaissance Literature. He received his M.A. at Iowa and completed most requirements for the Ph.D. He quit in the middle of his dissertation on John Milton, transferred many of his Ph.D. hours to the University of Oregon, where he received his MFA in creative writing, focusing on both poetry and fiction. Since then Heynen has been writing, teaching, or working in arts administration, including five years as the literature director for Centrum Foundation in Port Townsend, Washington. He lives with his wife, the journalist Sarah T. Williams, in St. Paul, Minnesota, and is writer-in-residence at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota.
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ON JIM HEYNEN'S BOOKSHELF STORIES De Canterbury-verhalen Geoffrey Chaucer, 1400 One of Heynen's favorite sources of inspiration.	HET OEUVRE VAN JIM HEYNEN: Dansen met de kippen 1993 –› Boekfragment Korte verhalen over het leven van enkele jongens op een Amerikaanse boerderij.
	Het geheim van de kip en de haan 2001 Korte verhalen over het leven van enkele jongens op een Amerikaanse boerderij.
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