About
Lyn Bixby received his military draft letter within weeks of graduating from Colby College in Waterville, Maine, in 1969. He passed his physical and was ordered to join the Army, serving at Fort Dix, N.J., Fort Bliss, Texas and at a number of bases on Okinawa before he was discharged because the Army couldn’t turn him into a soldier. He found a job at a suburban Connecticut daily newspaper as a newsroom clerk, was promoted to reporter and spent most of his career at the state’s largest newspaper, The Hartford Courant, working primarily on its special projects desk as an investigative reporter focused on corruption. Some projects gave him opportunities to dig into issues raised in his debut novel, The Pacifist. During his newspaper career he received a range of prestigious writing awards, including a shared Pulitzer Prize. He and his wife Debbie were married in 1979 and live in northern Vermont. They have two sons and three grandchildren.
Featured Work
The Pacifist
The Pacifist is a historical suspense thriller about resisting government power gone bad. It is the story of a fearless young woman’s pursuit of justice for her antiwar activist brother who is drafted during the Vietnam war and dies under questionable circumstances at an Army base after refusing to be inducted. Standing in her way are two of America’s most intimidating institutions, the Army, which says her brother accidently fell, and the FBI, which considers the antiwar movement to be public enemy number one.
