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S. C. "Sam" Gwynne is an American writer. He holds a bachelor's degree in history from Princeton University and a master's degree in writing from Johns Hopkins University.

He was born in Worcester, Massachusetts and grew up mainly in New Canaan, Connecticut. He attended secondary school at The Hill School. He majored in history at Princeton University and graduated in 1974. He also has a master's degree in writing from Johns Hopkins University, where he was awarded a graduate fellowship and studied under novelist John Barth. He lives in Austin, Texas with his wife, the artist Katie Maratta.

Prior to his career as a journalist and historian, Gwynne was a French teacher at Gilman School in Baltimore, Maryland. He was an international banker with both Ameritrust in Cleveland, Ohio and First Interstate Bank in Los Angeles and traveled extensively overseas.