JEROME CHARYN

Jerome Charyn

Jerome Charyn is an award-winning American author. With more than 50 published works, Charyn has earned a long-standing reputation as an inventive and prolific chronicler of real and imagined American life.

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Michael Chabon calls him "one of the most important writers in American literature." New York Newsday hailed Charyn as "a contemporary American Balzac," and the Los Angeles Times described him as "absolutely unique among American writers."

Since the 1964 release of Charyn's first novel, Once Upon a Droshky, he has published thirty novels, three memoirs, eight graphic novels, two books about film, short stories, plays and works of non-fiction. Two of his memoirs were named New York Times "Book of the Year." Charyn has been a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. He received the Rosenthal Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was named Commander of Arts and Letters by the French Minister of Culture. He is also a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Film Studies at the American University of Paris. 

Jerome Charyn lives in New York City and his first Stay Thirsty Press publication, A Singular Beauty, is a memoir about his mother and his early childhood in the Bronx.

Links:

Thirsty : Vol. 112-113 : The Golden Age of Hollywood with Jerome Charyn - The Complete Season One
Thirsty : Vol. 111 : A Conversation on Clubhouse with Literary Lion Jerome Charyn
Thirsty : Vol. 111 : One Hundred Words from Author Jerome Charyn about A Singular Beauty & More
Thirsty : Vol. 110 : A Conversation with Novelist Jerome Charyn