Author Biography

Ned-SmallHi. I’m Ned Hayes, and I write literary fiction and historical novels, including the national bestseller The Eagle TreeRead a complete list of my books here. You can also follow my Facebook Author Page and on Twitter. The best way to keep up with all my latest news is to sign up for my newsletter.

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Ned Hayes is a novelist and journalist whose books have been published around the world in multiple languages — most recently the national bestseller THE EAGLE TREEwhich was named one of the top 5 books about the autistic experience.


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Ned Hayes is a novelist and journalist whose books have been published around the world in multiple languages — most recently the national bestseller THE EAGLE TREEwhich was named one of the top 5 books about the autistic experience. His previous novels include the acclaimed historical novel SINFUL FOLK, illustrated by New York Times bestselling author/illustrator Nikki McClure, which was nominated for the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award. He was educated at Stanford University and the Rainier Writing Workshop and has served on the boards of the Reading Foundation and Clarion West.

 

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Ned Hayes is a novelist and journalist whose books have been published around the world in multiple languages — most recently the national bestseller THE EAGLE TREEwhich was nominated for the PEN/Faulkner, the Washington State Book Award and was named one of the top 5 books about the autistic experience. His previous novels include COEUR D’ALENE WATERS and the acclaimed historical novel SINFUL FOLK, illustrated by New York Times bestselling author/illustrator Nikki McClure, which was nominated for the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award.

He is a contributor to many magazines and journals and has published on a variety of subjects, from creative writing to post-modern theology to science-fiction, robotics, programming languages and feminist studies. His novels have been published by Campanile Books, Little A, Bucknell University Press, Orchard Press, and Prospero Books in the United States. Internationally, his works have been published by Aquarius Publishing, by Orbis Books and by Little A (UK).

He was educated at Stanford University and the Rainier Writing Workshop. He has also studied philosophy, literature and the process theology of A.N. Whitehead at Luther Seminary, the Graduate Theological Union at UC Berkeley, Seattle University and Western Washington University. He holds MA and MFA degrees.

He co-founded the technology company TeleTrust and was the founding product lead for Paul Allen’s ARO team at Vulcan. He has also provided product direction for new technology innovation at Xerox PARC, Intel, Microsoft and Adobe and has contributed to a variety of technology patents for these companies.

He is also passionate about building sustainable local arts communities. In fact, he used the royalties from his bestselling novel to found the regional arts and culture magazine OLY ARTS as a way of giving back to the Olympia Washington community that inspired his novel THE EAGLE TREE. OLY ARTS is now the leading print and online magazine about the arts in the South Sound (OlyArts.com)

He has served as a Director of the Board for the Washington Center for the Performing Arts, the Reading Foundation and Clarion West.

 

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I also write dark fantasy (SF/F) under the name Nicholas Hallum, like my new novel Wilderness of Mirrors, which describes a secret history behind the War on Terror.  I write in two names just so readers will know what to expect… not because I think one genre is better than another.