James Timothy Hunt (born April 1, 1959) is an American-Canadian author, journalist, and script supervisor.
He became a Canadian citizen in 2004, and resides in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and Grignan, France, with his husband, Morton Beiser and twin sons, Daniel and Rowan.
He has received two Canada Council Grants for writing and has been writer in residence three times at the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico.
Hunt has written for several Canadian newspapers and magazines, including National Post Business, Toronto Life, Elm Street, Reader's Digest, and Saturday Night.
A feature article in Saturday Night in June 2000 about Nigerian environmentalist Ken Saro-Wiwa was expanded in 2005 into the book The Politics of Bones.