Jerome Charyn

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The Bronx, New York

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male

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http://www.jeromecharyn.com

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Biographies & Memoirs, Literature & Fiction, Mystery & Thrillers

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Jerome Charyn has been teaching film for the past fourteen years at the American University of Paris. His novel, The Green Lantern, was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and he has also received the Rosenthal Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Charyns new novel, The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson, an astonishing work that reveals the passions and heartbreak of Americas greatest poet, was released by W. W. Norton & Company in 2010. "

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I was born in the mean streets of the Bronx and have remained a city wolf, dividing my time between New York City and Paris. I grew up reading comic books and watching movies; you can see their influences in my books. I started writing novels at the age of eleven; Amazon ca...more

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Average rating: 3.44 · 1,478 ratings · 276 reviews · 104 distinct works

	The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson 3.10 avg rating — 307 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Johnny One-Eye: A Tale of the American Revolution 3.21 avg rating — 185 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Joe DiMaggio: The Long Vigil 3.42 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Blue Eyes (Isaac Quartet #1) 3.80 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1901 — 10 editions	My rating:
	The Isaac Quartet: Blue Eyes, Marilyn the Wild, The Education of Patrick Silver, Secret Isaac 4.29 avg rating — 21 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	Gangsters and Gold Diggers: Old New York, the Jazz Age, and the Birth of Broadway 3.48 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2003 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Sizzling Chops and Devilish Spins: Ping-Pong and the Art of Staying Alive 3.80 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2001 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Good Policeman 3.69 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1991 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Raised by Wolves: The Turbulent Art and Times of Quentin Tarantino 3.58 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Seventh Babe by Jerome Charyn, Neil D. Isaacs (Afterword) 3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1979 — 3 editions	My rating:

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Margot (2 books)
by Jerome Charyn, Massimiliano Frezzato (Illustrator)

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“Why else do we write and write except to move our readers?”
― Jerome Charyn, The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson

tags: emily-dickinson , historical-fiction , novel

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