John Stewart Wynne is an American author of fiction. He is also a Grammy-nominated producer of spoken word recordings. He has written the novels THE RED SHOES and CRIME WAVE, the short story collection THE OTHER WORLD, and the chapbook THE SIGHTING.
His writing has been praised for its audacious originality, its beautiful imagery, the astute asides and wry observations of his characters, and his highly charged but often darkly comic mise-en-scènes. He has been hailed as the heir apparent to the tradition of “outsider art” exemplified by Tennessee Williams, Carson McCullers and Truman Capote.
Wynne’s poetry has been featured in The American Poetry Review and numerous other poetry journals. His controversial long narrative poem Two Struggling Actresses, about an actor consumed by the personality of Jayne Mansfield, appeared in The Paris Review.
His short fiction was published in HIGH RISK 2, Christopher Street, and John Calder’s NEW WRITING AND WRITERS 17 (alongside works by Samuel Beckett, Harry Mulisch, Jan Cremer, Yves Navarre, and Robert Pinget), among other publications.
Wynne has also produced and directed over one hundred audio books, including The Phantom of the Opera performed by F. Murray Abraham, William Styron reading his Darkness Visible (memoir), Christopher Reeve performing F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, and John F. Kennedy Jr. reading his father’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book Profiles in Courage. The latter was nominated for the Grammy Award as Best Spoken Word Album. Wynne himself was nominated for the Grammy Award as producer of Best Spoken Word Album for Children for The Magic School Bus: Fun with Sound, featuring Lily Tomlin.
He served as liaison and Executive Producer with Lucasfilm for a series of Star Wars CDs, worked with Scholastic Books developing dramatized, multi-cast audio productions based on Ann M. Martin’s The Baby-sitter’s Club series, and developed a Batman series with DC Comics.
In addition, Wynne is the author of the first popular guide to spoken word recordings, The Listener’s Guide to Audio Books (Simon & Schuster).
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