Background
Flynn, Robert Lopez was born on April 12, 1932 in Chillicothe, Texas, United States. Son of James Emmett and Gladys Lopez (Wilkinson) Flynn.
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Wanderer Springs: A Novel
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The Sounds of Rescue, the Signs of Hope
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Recognized by the Texas Institute of Letters, critically acclaimed author Robert Flynn is a treasure of the Lone Star State. The Sounds of Rescue, the Signs of Hope is his masterpiece. World War II pilot Greg Wallace is shot down over the Pacific. Luckily, he bails out and makes his way to land to await rescue. But with each day that passes, it grows less likely that a rescuer will ever come.
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A Personal War in Vietnam (Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series)
( Like no other war, the Vietnam War was marked by the in...)
Like no other war, the Vietnam War was marked by the involvement of the mass media. The war exploded daily on the evening news and weekly in the magazines; reports of drug-dulled GIs and a place called My Lai made rich copy that seared an impression in American minds about U.S. soldiers in Vietnam. Robert Flynn was himself in Vietnam as a war correspondent, but his contemporaneous account of the two months he spent with Golf Company, Fifth Marines, reports a facet of the war that went largely unreported by the mass media. Golf Company was composed of CUPP teams--a Marine squad and attached Navy corpsmen in the Combined Unit Pacification Program. CUPP teams were stationed in remote Vietnamese villes, tiny hamlets whose civilians the CUPP teams trained and assisted in protecting their homes from the Viet Cong. The men of Golf Company were without the backup of other U.S. forces; they had no barbed wire or bunkers and day and night had to move every few hours to avoid being pinned down. As pacification teams, they worked with villagers on a one-to-one basis, helping improve gardens and livestock, providing medical care, and putting in such facilities as community houses and water wells. It was a personal war; CUPP soldiers got to know and had to know the individuals of the villes, because an outsider or unease in the ville could mean Viet Cong were in the area. Upon his return from Vietnam in 1971, the author wrote this account of his experiences with Golf Company, in their firefights and in their quiet moments, and his impressions of the men and their work. In the context of the early 1970s, the resulting manuscript was not the kind of copy sought by any faction in the Vietnam crisis going on at home. It has been published without the polish of hindsight, and in its original, unrevised form, it provides a clear window to the villes and booby-trapped jungles and the conversations and impressions they evoked.
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North to Yesterday (Texas Tradition Series)
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Living with the Hyenas
( Hyenas are scavengers and predators. They prey on the w...)
Hyenas are scavengers and predators. They prey on the weak and the helpless and even their fellow predators, the lions. Like lions, the people in Robert Flynn’s stories learn to make accommodations to the hyenas and to a society that tolerates them. Sometimes accommodation is painful, as in A Boy and His Dog,” the story of a Marine and his dog trained to sniff out mines and booby-traps in the Vietnam War. Sometimes the process of accommodation is comic, bringing out Flynn’s characteristic wit, as in At Play in the Sewers of the Lord,” which juxtaposes theology and sewage treatment. But most often Flynn's stories make us look at ourselves as they probe difficult subjectsthe innate cruelty of children, our intolerance and lack of compassion for the elderly. In the title story, the main character decides that if she could live with her husband for forty years, she surely could live with hyenas. Flynn’s characters teach us all to be heroes of accommodation.
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The Last Klick
(An urgently contemporary study of the press and TV media ...)
An urgently contemporary study of the press and TV media in a wartime setting, but not, per se, a book about combat during the Vietnam War.
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- A Personal War in Vietnam (Texas a&M University Military History Series) (Like no other war, the Vietnam War was marked by the invo...)
- The Sounds of Rescue, Rhe Signs of Hope (Vintage hardcover in bright, like new illustrated dustjac...)
- In the House of the Lord (Texas Tradition Series) (Robert Flynn’s second novel tracks a day in the life of P...)
Robert Lopez Flynn
Edit ProfileEducation
Bachelor, Baylor University, 1954; Master of Arts, Baylor University, 1956.
Career
Professor, Gardner-Webb College, Boiling Springs, North Carolina, 1957-1959; professor, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, 1959-1963; novelist in residence, Trinity U., San Antonio, since 1963.
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The Last Klick
(An urgently contemporary study of the press and TV media ...)
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The Sounds of Rescue, the Signs of Hope
( Recognized by the Texas Institute of Letters, criticall...)
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In the House of the Lord (Texas Tradition Series)
( Robert Flynn’s second novel tracks a day in the life of...)
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The Sounds of Rescue, Rhe Signs of Hope
(Vintage hardcover in bright, like new illustrated dustjac...)
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A Personal War in Vietnam (Texas a&M University Military History Series)
( Like no other war, the Vietnam War was marked by the in...)
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A Personal War in Vietnam (Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series)
( Like no other war, the Vietnam War was marked by the in...)
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Living with the Hyenas
( Hyenas are scavengers and predators. They prey on the w...)
- Last Klick Signed 1ST Edition
- Wanderer Springs: A Novel
- North to Yesterday (Texas Tradition Series)
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The Last Klick
Membership
With United States Marine Corps, 1950-1952. Member Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association, Marine Combat Corrs., Texas Institute Letters (president 1990-1992).
Connections
Married Norma Jean Sorrels. Children: Deirdre Siobhan Flynn-Bass, Brigid Erin (deceased).
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1954
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1956