JIM LYNCH

Featured May 20, 2006

Jim Lynch's first novel, The Highest Tide, won a 2006 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award and has been a regional bestseller. It has also been published in more than 20 countries and translated into six languages so far. Library Journal chose The Highest Tide as one of its best first novelist's books of the year.  It was a Border's Original Voices choice and a BookSense pick for fiction as well.

"When it came to crafting The Highest Tide, the place came to me long before the characters or the plot. I longed to set a novel on Olympia's bays soon after arriving here eight years ago. When the premise and the characters finally came to me, I realized I needed to know far more about our marine world. So I kayaked, sailed, beach combed and raided Timberland Regional Libraries for books by oceanographers and biologists. From my research and imagination emerged the tale of a tiny observant boy who becomes a celebrity during a summer in which he keeps discovering exotic sea life on the tidal flats near his Olympia home. It's a story about obsession and natural wonder that I hope entertains and inspires."

Jim lives on the west coast of the United States in Olympia, Washington with his wife and daughter.

For additional information http://thehighesttide.com/