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Harris,
Christopher
Christopher Harris is
a fiction writer who is also the editor of HoleCity.com
and a freelance sportswriter and consultant.
He graduated from Cornell University a long
time ago, and now lives in Amherst, MA, with
beagles. He is the author of the novel Cyrus.
- Slay Bells Ring
(Texts). TRoL 16, Winter 2005.
Hunt,
Chantal Loiseau
Chantal Pepin de Bonnerive,
was born in Lyon, France. She spent the years
of the Second World War in Sologne, living with
her family in the house of her great-grandmother.
In 1946, she married Bernard Loiseau, with whom
she had two children. She then lived in Paris,
where she was an editor at the Department of
Cultural Relations in the Ministry of Foreign
affairs. In 1953, following the sudden death
of her husband, she managed a bookshop in St
Germain des Pres until 1962 when she became
the assistant to Pierre Emmanuel, the Directeur
Litteraire of the Congress for Cultural Freedom.
There she met and later married John Hunt, an
American writer who was the Administrative Secretary
of the Congress. In 1968, she moved with her
husband to La Jolla, California where he joined
the Salk Institute. In the years which followed,
she lived in Boston, Princeton and New York,
where she directed a shop on Madison Avenue
which sold dresses and scarves made from hand-painted
silk. In Princeton she was Research Assistant
to George Kennan while he was writing his book
on The Fateful Alliance. With her husband,
John, she returned to France in 1990. First
to Paris, then to Uzes, and finally, Lyon. The
circle had been completed…
- Joseph
(Insert). TRoL 10, September 2001.
- Antoinette
(Texts). TRoL 14/15, Fall/Winter 2005.
Hunt,
John
John (Clinton) Hunt
was born in 1925 in Muskogee, Oklahoma. He spent
his boyhood in Pawhuska, Oklahoma, on what had
been the reservation of the Osage Indians. Hunt's
family was originally Southern. He is a direct
descendant of David Crockett. He attended The
Lawrenceville School from which he joined the
U.S. Marine Corps in 1943. After the War, he
went to Harvard, graduating in 1948. He lived
in Paris in '48-'49, where his daughter was
born. His son was born in St. Louis, where he
was teaching Greek at the Thomas Jefferson School.
His first novel, Generations of Men,
was published in 1956. He was then living in
Washington, D.C., before returning to Paris
where he was eventually employed by the Congress
for Cultural Freedom, where he remained until
1967. A second novel, The Grey Horse Legacy,
appeared in 1968, while he was at the Salk Institute
for Biological Studies. In subsequent years,
he held senior management positions at the Aspen
Institute, the University of Pennsylvania, le
Centre Royaumont pour une Science de l'Homme,
and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton,
N.J. When he retired in 1990, he was Founding
Chairman and CEO of BioTechnica International
in Cambridge, Mass. He now lives with his wife,
Chantal, in Lyon, France.
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