James Byrne is the pseudonym for an author who has worked for more than twenty years as a journalist and in politics. A native of the Pacific Northwest, he lives in Portland, Oregon.
Byrne's new Dez Limerick thriller is Chain Reaction.
Recently I asked the author about what he was reading. Byrne's reply:
I shouldn’t read mysteries and thrillers when I’m in a first-draft mode — as I am now — so I’m re-reading Wind, Sand and Stars by aviator, novelist, journalist Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. It’s a collection of the most amazing stories about the earliest days of aviation. He writes about flying over hostile tribesVisit James Byrne's website.in North Africa and the treacherous Andes Mountains in South America, delivering the mail in the 1930s. His prose style is beautiful and lyrical, and his descriptions are elegant.
Although he’s most famous for The Little Prince, it’s his aviation writing that mesmerizes me.
Adding to his mystique: The greatest writer to ever focus on the adventure of flying disappeared over the Mediterranean in 1944 while flying off the coast of occupied France.
Q&A with James Byrne.
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