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.
James Timothy Hunt | |
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| Born | April 1, 1959 Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Pen name | Tim Beiser |
| Occupation | Author, journalist, script supervisor |
| Nationality | American/Canadian |
| Genre | Non-fiction, children's fiction, science fiction |
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Biography
editHunt 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
editHunt 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
editSince 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
editAs J. Timothy Hunt
edit- 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
edit- Bradley McGogg, the Very Fine Frog
- Miss Mousie's Blind Date[4]
- Little Chicken Duck[5]
- There, There [6]
List of awards
edit- Canada Council for the Arts: "The Marquise Skull Affair," (Creative Writing Grant), 2007
- Canadian National Magazine Award: "For Better or Worse?" (Nominee, Best Essay), 2006
- Canada Council for the Arts: "The Politics of Bones," (Creative Writing Grant), 2001
- Canadian National Magazine Award: "The politics of bones," (Nominee, Best Profile), 2001
- Canadian National Magazine Award: "Moving target," (Nominee, Best Technology Article), 2001
- Canadian National Magazine Award: "An Incredible Hodgepodge of Weirdness," (Nominee, Best Profile), 2000
- James H. Carter Award, 1999
- Mark Bastien Award: "An Incredible Hodgepodge of Weirdness," (Best Article), 1999
- AJEMC Award: "An Incredible Hodgepodge of Weirdness," (silver), 1999
- Gordon Sinclair Award, 1998
- Chinese Community Award, 1998
- Women's Press Club of Toronto Award, 1998
- Poets & Writers' Jean Paiva Award:"Best New Writer," 1993
As Tim Beiser
edit- Governor General's Award, Children's Literature Illustration (Nominee) 2009 & 2013 [7][8]
- Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Award 2010—Children's Picture Book of the Year (Nominee)[9]
- Ontario Library Association's 2010 Forest of Reading, Blue Spruce Award (Nominee) [10]
- Canadian Toy Testing Council, Top 10 Books of the year 2010.[11]
- Chocolate Lily Book Awards 2010-2011, Picture book (Nominee) [12]
References
edit- ^ Blachowitz, Perri (July 2018). "The Beiser-Hunt Family: A Beautiful Life". No. 9. Best Version Media. Retrieved 30 July 2018.
- ^ Hunt, J. Timothy (2022). Script Supervision and Continuity Course Handbook. Toronto: Adhemar Press. p. 123. ISBN 9798846480001.
- ^ Hunt, J. Timothy. "Script Supervisor". IMDB. Retrieved 13 April 2015.
- ^ Tim, BEISER. "Miss Mousie". School Library Journal. Retrieved 2024-10-16.
- ^ Beiser, Tim; Slavin, Bill (2013). Little chicken duck. Toronto: Tundra Books. ISBN 978-1-77049-392-6. OCLC 812064472.
- ^ "Tim Beiser | Penguin Random House".
- ^ "Miss Mousie's Blind Date by Tim Beiser: 9781770492516 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books".
- ^ "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.
- ^ "CBA Libris Awards 2010 Shortlist « Talking with Tundra". tundrabooks.wordpress.com. Archived from the original on 2011-07-18.
- ^ "Forest of Reading? 2010 - Blue Spruce?". www.accessola.com. Archived from the original on 2009-10-30.
- ^ "Canadian Toy Testing Council". Archived from the original on 2010-02-21. Retrieved 2010-07-09.
- ^ http://www.chocolatelilyawards.com Archived 2010-10-11 at the Wayback Machine