

Unfortunately for Flynn, he was deemed medically unfit to join the aviation program. In fact, after graduation, he went to work in the marketing department of Kraft Foods, before attempting to gain entry into Marine Corps.

While writing would eventually come naturally to Vince Flynn, he did not start out as a writer. After a three year battle with stage III prostate cancer, Flynn died in June 2013 at the age of 47. He also served as a story consultant for the hit TV series “24”, during its fifth season. Flynn was the fifth of seven kids and lived with his wife and three children in the Twin Cities. Reading these novels pushed him into wanting to write a novel of his own. Tolkien, Tom Clancy, Gore Vidal, John Irving, Ernest Hemingway, and Robert Ludlum. He pushed himself to read and write daily his influences were J. Part of what got Flynn writing was his trying to overcome his dyslexia. He would work as an aviator in the Marine Corps, and was medically disqualified one week before he was supposed to start Officer Candidate School.īefore pursuing writing full time, Flynn worked as a real estate agent, which was a move that some people thought that he was crazy to pursue (as there was a large risk involved it meant that he would have to start over with a new career), but he did not regret the change one bit. He would work at Kraft Foods specializing in sales marketing and sales. He graduated from both the Saint Thomas Academy in 1984 and the University of Saint Thomas (Minnesota) in 1989.

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