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J. Timothy Hunt

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James Timothy Hunt
Born (1959-04-01) April 1, 1959 (age 65)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Pen nameTim Beiser
OccupationAuthor, journalist, script supervisor
NationalityAmerican/Canadian
GenreNon-fiction, children's fiction, science fiction
Website
www.jtimothyhunt.com

James Timothy Hunt (born April 1, 1959) is an American-Canadian author, journalist, and script supervisor. He has also written children's books under the pen name Tim Beiser.

Biography

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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. He became a Canadian citizen in 2004, and resides in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and Grignan, France, with his husband, Morton Beiser and twin sons, Daniel and Rowan.[1]

Publishing

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Hunt is the author of eight published books. He has been nominated twice for Canada's Governor General's Awards, and four times for Canadian National Magazine Awards. He has received two Canada Council Grants for writing and has been writer in residence three times at the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico.[2] He received a B.A.A. in Journalism from Toronto's Ryerson University in 1999.

Hunt has written for several Canadian newspapers and magazines, including National Post Business, Toronto Life, Elm Street, Reader's Digest, and Saturday Night. A feature article in Saturday Night in June 2000 about Nigerian environmentalist Ken Saro-Wiwa was expanded in 2005 into the book The Politics of Bones.

In 2007, Hunt began writing children's fiction for Tundra Books under the pseudonym Tim Beiser.

Film and television

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Since 2013, Hunt as worked as a script supervisor, screenwriter, and actor in the film and television industry.[3] He holds a master's degree in film studies from Staffordshire University.

Books

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As J. Timothy Hunt

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  • The Politics of Bones
  • Killing Time in Taos
  • Madame de Sévigné and Her Children at the Court of Versailles, English translation of 1882 novella by Le Bibliophile Jacob
  • Script Supervision and Continuity Course Handbook

As Tim Beiser

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List of awards

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As Tim Beiser

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  • Governor General's Award, Children's Literature Illustration (Nominee) 2009 & 2013 [5][6]
  • Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Award 2010—Children's Picture Book of the Year (Nominee)[7]
  • Ontario Library Association's 2010 Forest of Reading, Blue Spruce Award (Nominee) [8]
  • Canadian Toy Testing Council, Top 10 Books of the year 2010.[9]
  • Chocolate Lily Book Awards 2010-2011, Picture book (Nominee) [10]

References

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  1. ^ Blachowitz, Perri (July 2018). "The Beiser-Hunt Family: A Beautiful Life". No. 9. Best Version Media. Retrieved 30 July 2018.
  2. ^ Hunt, J. Timothy (2022). Script Supervision and Continuity Course Handbook. Toronto: Adhemar Press. p. 123. ISBN 9798846480001.
  3. ^ Hunt, J. Timothy. "Script Supervisor". IMDB. Retrieved 13 April 2015.
  4. ^ "Tim Beiser | Penguin Random House".
  5. ^ "Miss Mousie's Blind Date by Tim Beiser: 9781770492516 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books".
  6. ^ "The Canada Council for the Arts - Canada Council for the Arts announces the finalists for the 2009 Governor General's Literary Awards". Archived from the original on 2010-07-27. Retrieved 2016-03-26.
  7. ^ "CBA Libris Awards 2010 Shortlist « Talking with Tundra". tundrabooks.wordpress.com. Archived from the original on 2011-07-18.
  8. ^ "Forest of Reading? 2010 - Blue Spruce?". www.accessola.com. Archived from the original on 2009-10-30.
  9. ^ "Canadian Toy Testing Council". Archived from the original on 2010-02-21. Retrieved 2010-07-09.
  10. ^ http://www.chocolatelilyawards.com Archived 2010-10-11 at the Wayback Machine
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