David Lynn

Professor of English, Editor of The Kenyon Review

David Lynn is editor of The Kenyon Review, the distinguished international journal of literature, culture, and the arts. His new novel, Wrestling with Gabriel, has been published by Carnegie Mellon University Press, which also published his book of stories, Fortune Telling, in March 1998. He is also author of The Hero's Tale: Narrators in the Early Modern Novel (St. Martins, NY and Macmillan, London; 1989), and many stories and essays. His M.A. (in creative writing) and Ph.D. are from the University of Virginia. He is on the Board of Directors of the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses.

At Kenyon College, David Lynn teaches workshops in fiction writing as well literature courses, among which are: British Modernism vs. Colonialism; Contemporary and Postcolonial Literature; British and American Modernism; and a seminar in American Studies: Baseball and American Culture. In 1995-96 he was a Senior Fulbright Scholar in India.

David Lynn lives in Gambier with his wife, Professor of History Wendy Singer, and their two children, Aaron and Elizabeth.

Education

M.A, Ph.D, University of Virginia
B. A. Kenyon College