Noel Hynd was born in New York City and spent his formative years in both New York and Connecticut. He began his writing career before graduating from the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Relations.
Hynd's novel "The Enemy Within" was published in hardcover by Tor Books in March 2006. His previous supernatural thrillers, including "Ghosts", "Rage of Spirits", "Cemetery of Angels", and "A Room For The Dead", remain extremely popular and have been selected by major American book clubs. "Ghosts" was a Literary Guild selection in 2004 and is currently in the pre-production stage as a mini-series for cable TV.
Earlier works include several novels in the espionage field, such as "Zigzag" (1992),a political thriller set around the 1996 U.S. Presidential election, and "Truman's Spy" (1991),an espionage thriller set at the outset of the McCarthy era in 1950. His first novel, "Revenge", was published in 1976, and movie rights were sold to Frank Yablans at Twentieth Century Fox.
Other suspense and/or espionage novels that followed were "The Sandler Inquiry" (1977),"False Flags" (1979),"Flowers From Berlin" (1985),and "The Khrushchev Objective" (1987). In the latter book, Hynd worked with former British intelligence officer Christopher Creighton to tell the inside story of Britain's Crabb Affair, one of the most notorious British diplomatic and intelligence scandals of the 1950s.
His novels have been published worldwide, with foreign editions appearing in the UK, as well as in translation in French, Spanish, German, Swedish, Dutch, Turkish, Finnish, and Japanese. Some of his novels have been on regional best-seller lists in the US and abroad, with worldwide sales totaling over five million copies.
In addition to his fiction, Hynd has written three non-fiction books. The first was "The Cop and The Kid" (1982),in which he followed the New York City Police Department's Emergency Services Unit for over a year. The second was "The Giants of the Polo Grounds" (1988),an anecdotal and informal history of baseball's New York Giants from 1873 to 1957.
The latter book was a nominee for best baseball book of the year by Spitball Magazine, the literary baseball publication based in Cincinnati, and was also cited in "Editor's Choice" by the New York Times' Sunday Review of Books as one of the year's best books. "The Giants of the Polo Grounds" was also published as a quality trade paperback in the spring of 1996 by Taylor Publishing of Dallas, TX.
Hynd published a biography titled "Marquard and Seeley" in 1996, which is the true story of Hall of Fame baseball pitcher Rube Marquard, who attempted to quit baseball and join his wife, actress/singer Blossom Seeley, as a musical hall star in the years before World War I.
In 1995, the Actors Guild of Lexington, Kentucky, commissioned Hynd to adapt one of his novels, "A Room For The Dead", as a stage play. The new piece was given a staged reading at the Guild's Theater in Lexington in February 1996.
As a frequent contributor to various magazines, Hynd has written for Harper's, Sports Illustrated, World Traveler, The Reader's Digest, and The Pennsylvania Gazette, the alumni magazine of the University of Pennsylvania, for whom he is the monthly sports columnist. His specialties in magazine work are true crime and professional sports.
Hynd currently resides in Culver City, California.
