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American writer, playwright, and poet

Nick Flynn (born January 26, 1960) is an American writer, playwright, and poet.

Life and career

Nick Flynn was raised by his mother in Scituate, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston.

Flynn had no contact with his father throughout most of his childhood and adolescence as his parents separated when he was six months old.^[1] As a child, he was discouraged from pursuing a writing career because his father had identified himself as a writer to his mother when they first met.

Flynn claims that, along with his father's alcoholism, a reason for his parents' separation was his father's "delusion of greatness" directly connected to his being an artist. Flynn first became an electrician instead of a writer after graduating high school, because of the stigma associated with the latter.^[2]

At 20, he was offered a scholarship to study English at University of Massachusetts Amherst.

He studied with Fred Robinson, who