Jim Haynes

James Haynes (born 10 November 1933), commonly known as Jim Haynes, is a former figure in the British "underground" and alternative/counter-culture scene of the 1960s. He was involved with the founding of Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre, the paper International Times and the London Arts Lab in Drury Lane for experimental and mixed media work.

Haynes was born in the United States in Haynesville, Claiborne Parish, in far northern Louisiana. He spent several years in Venezuela and attended an unnamed university. In 1956, Haynes was serving in the US military and stationed with a unit in Scotland; he decided to stay after his service ended.

He attended Edinburgh University and, among other writing and musical activities, helped to found the Traverse Theatre and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. He ran the Paperback Bookshop in George Square ("at the sign of the rhinoceros head" - there was a stuffed trophy head on the pavement outside). He boasted that this was "Britain's first paperback only bookshop", until the University redeveloped the Square and he lost the premises.

In 1962, Haynes co-founded the International Writers Conference with John Calder and Sonia Orwell.

in 1963 Haynes and Calder and Kenneth Tynan created an International Drama Conference which ended in a scandal, a nude young women being involved in an happening.

In 1966, Haynes relocated to London in the middle of the "swinging 60s". He became deeply involved in the underground cultural scene, co-founding the alternative paper International Times, known as "I.T.", together with Barry Miles, John Hopkins, and others.

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