Background
Hunt grew up in Singapore, San Francisco, The Hague, and London before moving to his grandmother"s farm in rural Indiana, where he attended Clinton Central High School.
Hunt grew up in Singapore, San Francisco, The Hague, and London before moving to his grandmother"s farm in rural Indiana, where he attended Clinton Central High School.
He also studied French literature at the Sorbonne.
He earned a Bachelor of Arts from Indiana University and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University. Hunt worked in the press office at the United Nations while writing his first novel. He is currently a professor in the Creative Writing program at University of Denver.
In 2014 it was announced that Irish director Lenny Abrahamson would film an adaptation of Hunt"s Civil War novel.