Nick Flynn was born on January 26,1960 and is an American writer, playwright, and poet.
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11 Facts About Nick Flynn
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Nick Flynn's writing is characterized by lyric, distilled moments, which blur the boundaries of various genres.
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Nick Flynn was raised by his mother in Scituate, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston.
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Nick Flynn first became an electrician instead of a writer after graduating high school, because of the stigma associated with the latter.
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Nick Flynn studied with Fred Robinson, who was then married to Marilyn Robinson—she would sometimes teach his classes.
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Nick Flynn took classes at various colleges and universities over the next several years to finish his undergraduate degree, while living in the Fort Point Channel on a boat he and a friend had renovated.
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When he was 27, Nick Flynn was unexpectedly reunited with his father at the Pine Street Inn, when his then-homeless father showed up as a "guest".
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At 29, Nick Flynn began therapy, got sober, and began taking poetry workshops, first with Carolyn Forche, then with Marie Howe.
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Nick Flynn left Brooklyn in 1999 for a second fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center, where he finished his first book of poems, Some Ether, begun ten years earlier.
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Nick Flynn collaborated on Sauper's Academy Awards nominated documentary Darwin's Nightmare—traveling to Tanzania for the filming and to Paris for the editing.
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