Jimmy Fincher

Jimmy Fincher is the lead protagonist of the Jimmy Fincher series of novels by James Smith Dashner. The first novel of the series was his author debut, “A Door in the Woods” that was first published in 2003. While Dashner for the most part writes speculative fiction he is also an author of young adult science fiction, fantasy, and children’s literature. He is best known for the “Maze Runner” series of novels that have been made into a blockbuster movie by the same title. James was born in Austell, Georgia in 1972 being one of six children born to Mormon parents. Dashner loved reading from a very young age and by the time he was ten he was already typing out stories on his parents’ old typewriter. He would graduate from Duluth High School before he went to Brigham Young University in Provo, where he got his accounting masters. He currently lives in Utah with his wife Lynette Anderson that he met while he was in college and his four children.