Mac Hyman

Mac Hyman was an American fiction writer whose best-selling comic novel “No Time for Sergeants” was adapted into a popular Broadway play and a motion picture, which launched the career of Andy Griffit... Read more
Mac Hyman was an American fiction writer whose best-selling comic novel “No Time for Sergeants” was adapted into a popular Broadway play and a motion picture, which launched the career of Andy Griffith. Hyman had published just three short stories and was struggling with his second novel when he died of a heart attack in 1963, just one month before his fortieth birthday. That second novel, “Take Now Thy Son,” and a collection of Hyman's letters entitled “Love, Boy: The Letters of Mac Hyman” were both published posthumously. His short story "The Hundredth Centennial" was published by "The Paris Review" in 1954. Another short story, "The Dove Shoot," was published in a collection of works by other Duke authors in 1963. Hyman's daughter, Gwyn Hyman Rubio, is the author of “Icy Sparks” and “The Woodsman's Daughter.”