Michael Flynn (writer)

Flynn was born on December 20, 1947, in Easton, Pennsylvania, to Joseph and Rita (Singley) Flynn. He had a brother, Dennis, who died in childhood. Flynn attended and graduated from Notre Dame High School, then located in Bethlehem Township. He earned a B.A. in mathematics from La Salle University in Easton, and an M.S. in topology from Marquette University in Milwaukee. He began but did not complete a Ph.D at the University of Colorado Boulder. ==Career==

Prior to becoming a science fiction author, he was employed as an industrial quality engineer and statistician with Coors Container Corporation and Stat-A-Matrix/Oriel. ==Bibliography==

;Hugo Award nominations • 1987 novella Eifelheim • 1988 novella The Forest of Time • 1995 novella Melodies of the Heart • 2005 novelette The Clapping Hands of God • 2007 novelette "Dawn, and Sunset, and the Colours of the Earth" • 2007 novel Eifelheim (based on the 1987 novella) • 2015 novelette "The Journeyman: In the Stone House" ;Prometheus Award • 1991 In the Country of the Blind (won) • 1992 Fallen Angels (won) • 1997 Firestar (finalist) • 1999 Rogue Star (finalist) • 2001 Lodestar (finalist) • 2002 Falling Stars (finalist) • 2009 The January Dancer (finalist) • 2013 ''In the Lion's Mouth'' (nominated) • 2024 In the Belly of the Whale (won) ;Other awards • Fallen Angels also won the Seiun Award, and was co-written with Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. • The novelette "House of Dreams" won a Theodore Sturgeon Award in 1998. • The novelette "Quaestiones Super Caelo et Mundo" tied with Kristine Kathryn Rusch's novella "Recovering Apollo 8" for the Sidewise Award for Alternate History in 2007. • First winner of the Robert A. Heinlein Medal. ==Death==

Flynn died at his childhood home in Easton, Pennsylvania, on September 30, 2023, at age 75. He is interred at New St. Joseph's Cemetery in Easton. ==References==