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Jon Clinch is an American writer, teacher and advertising agent. Originally from upstate New York, he graduated from Syracuse University and has taught American literature. He has worked in Philadelphia as the creative director of an ad agency, and as of 2007 runs his own agency. He has written stories which have been published in MSS magazine. In 2007 he published his first novel, Finn: A Novel, a critically acclaimed  re-telling of the back story of "Pap Finn", Huckleberry Finn's father from Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn.