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Brief Bio
Jobie Hughes was born July 9, 1980, in Renton, Washington, a suburb of Seattle, but raised from the age of three in the quaint and mostly blue-collar town of Spencer, Ohio, population 747, which lies forty miles southwest of Cleveland. He was a high school state champion in wrestling, attended Ohio University on an athletic scholarship, and graduated with a business degree in Management Information Systems (MIS), a major he had little interest in and chosen for no other reason than, at age 20, he hadn't the slightest idea of what he wanted to do. What followed were five aimless years earning minimal pay working shitty jobs, most of which he was fired from. He started writing when he was 24 and, at age 27, left capitalism behind and moved to New York City to attend Columbia University’s School of the Arts. He graduated in May 2009 with a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Creative Writing (fiction).
Hughes is the co-author of two previous novels, both of which were #1 New York Times Best Sellers and have sold over a million copies worldwide. His work has been translated into 26 languages and published in 48 countries.
His debut literary novel, At Dawn, will be released on October 16, 2012 by Counterpoint/Soft Skull Press.
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