Jerome Charyn

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Jerome Charyn (born May 13, 1937) is an American author.

Charyn has a long history as an imaginative and prolific chronicler of real and imagined American life, writing in various genres.Michael Chabon says he is one of the country's most influential writers. Charyn was praised by New York Newsday as "a modern American Balzac" and the Los Angeles Times described him as "completely unique among American writers." "Once Upon a Droshky, Charyn's first book, was published in 1964."

The debut of detective character Isaac Sidel, Charyn, attracted a lot of interest and praise with his 1975 film Blue Eyes (1975).

Charyn has written 37 books, three memoirs, nine graphic novels, two graphic novels, two films about film, short stories, dramas, and works of non-fiction as of 2017.

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.

Charyn was given a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in Fiction in 1983.

He was awarded the Rosenthal Award by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and by the French Minister of Culture, he was named Commander of Arts and Letter (Ordre des Lettres). Charyn was Distinguished Professor of Film Studies at the American University of Paris until 2009, when he retired from teaching. Charyn is a tournament table tennis player who has been ranked in the top ten percent of French players, in addition to writing and teaching.

"The Sun Also Rises of ping-pong," novelist Don DeLillo wrote about Charyn's book on table tennis, Sizzling Chops & Devilish Spins. "Charyn lives in Paris and New York City."

Early life

Charyn was born in Bronx, New York City, to Sam and Fanny Charyn. (Paley) Charyn was born. Charyn spent his days in comic books and cinema in order to escape its mean streets. Except for volume "A" of the Book of Knowledge, books were scarce in the Charyn household. Charyn hungered for more after being all too well versed in astronomy and aardvarks. He studied at The High School of Music and Art in Manhattan, majoring in painting. Charyn moved from painting to literature, focusing on Russian literature, studied history and comparative literature with a focus on Russian literature, graduating Phi Beta Kappa and cum laude (BA, 1959).

Personal life

Charyn has lived in Greenwich Village, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Palo Alto, California, Houston, Austin, Texas, Paris, and Barcelona. He now divides his time between New York and Paris. He resisted mastering the French language during 14 years of living in Paris and teaching at the American University, afraid of its impact on "the rhythm [of my native language] [of my native speech] — even though French words creep into your vocabulary. "I don't want my music to interfere with."

Charyn is married to Lenore Riegel, the mother of actress Eden Riegel and voice actor Sam Riegel.

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Teaching career

Charyn appeared at his alma mater, Manhattan's High School of Music and Art, and the High School of Performing Arts, which were both prominent in the film Fame, from 1962 to 1964.

In 1965, Charyn lectured in English at the City College of New York. From 1965 to 1968, he was assistant professor of English at Stanford University. He served as a visiting professor in colleges around the country, including Rice University in 1979 and Princeton University in 1986. Charyn served as a Distinguished Professor at the City College of New York from 1988 to 1989.

Charyn taught film at American University of Paris, where he is Distinguished Professor Emeritus from 1995 to 2008.

Charyn is a member of the International Statistical Institute of Laboratoires et de Recherche sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA), a research center at Aix-Marseille University.

Literary career

Charyn often refers to his hometown Bronx in many of his books, including a book appropriately named El Bronx. Charyn, Michael Woolf, who wrote Exploding the Genre: Jerome Charyn's Crime Fiction, says of Charyn: "Charyn is the most innovative and inventive of all the novelists named as Jewish-American." "Understandable ingenuity, which often surprises and repeatedly undermines the reader's aspiration."

Isaac Sidel, a Jewish New York police detective turned mayor who is the subject of eleven crime novels, including Blue Eyes and Citizen Sidel, is one of Charyn's most popular protagonists. After discovering Ross Macdonald's The Galton Case (1959), Charyn became interested in writing a crime novel. Charyn's favorite was his narrative voice, who was at once sympathetic and detached, who "deliver[s] both a landscape and a history with no hint of sentimentality." Charyn's brother, Harvey, a NYPD homicide detective, added to the realism of this famous film, which attracted a cult following around the world. Charyn considered releasing the first Sidel book under what he described as Joseph da Silva's Marrano pen name (i.e. : to mask his Jewish roots), but was advised by his agent not to use his birth name.

The ten books were translated into seven languages and remained in print for three decades. Charyn co-produced and co-wrote a television pilot starring Ron Silver as The Good Policemen in 1991. Otto Penzler, the creator of Mysterious Press, reissued the entire series as eBooks in April 2012, co-published by Open Road Media. The first new Sidel thriller in a decade, Under the Eye of God, was relaunched in October 2012, the first new Sidel thriller in a decade, with the release of Hard Apple, the first planned adult animated TV drama.

Charyn's eight graphic novels were teamed with artists like Jacques de Loustal, José Antonio Muoz, and François Boucq, with whom he shared the 1998 Angoulême Grand Prix. A substantial portion of his writing in this genre was inspired by the comic books he devoured as a child. Charyn himself claims that comic books taught him how to read.

Charyn's books have been translated into French, German, Italian, Spanish, Greek, Greek, Chinese, and 11 other languages. Charyn served as a judge for the 2011 National Book Awards in Fiction. He is branded by Georges Borchardt's literary company.

The Fales Library at New York University holds Charyn's personal papers.

A lot of controversy emerged when it was revealed that Emily Dickinson's "The Unknown Life of Emily Dickinson" was published in 2010. Charyn was much too rash in writing in poet Emily Dickinson's voice and surrounding her with invented characters, according to some commentators. This "fits very well into the burgeoning field of literary body snatching," the New York Times said. The book was dubbed a "bodice ripper" by the San Francisco Chronicle.

Other commentators viewed the work as a magical tour de force. "Nothing on literary sleights of hand is more thrilling for the writer than the appropriation of another—classic—writer's voice," Joyce Carol Oates wrote in The New York Review of Books. "I had hoped that there was someone like Dickinson out there," reviewer William Kowalski told the Globe and Mail. My one regret after finding her was that I would never get to meet her acquaintance. Millions of others, no doubt, feel the same. We're lucky that Jerome Charyn wrote this book."

Charyn's book The Unknown Life of Emily Dickinson transforms herself into Emily Dickinson, bringing America's greatest female poet to life. Dickinson's "hidden life" to the reader, delving into her childhood, romantic interests, as well as her final illness and death.

The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson, a Massachusetts Center for the Book, was named a "Must-Read" book by the Massachusetts Center for the Book on May 1, 2011 and named a finalist for its annual book award in the fiction category. Rivages in 2013 published la vie secrète dickinson's French version.

Charyn claims he was inspired for his book by Emily Dickinson's letters and poems. "I am fascinated by her writing and the sort of authority she had." I don't think we'll ever know where it came from.

Charyn was asked by literary website Smyles and Fish, along with lifelong friend Frederic Tuten, to write an essay about their former colleague and friend Donald Barthelme in 2007. The essay turned into a long piece, which provides a sort of recap of these three writers and the culture of their influences. The project is divided into three parts: An introduction essay by editor-in-chief Iris Smyles, Charyn's book on Barthelme, and Tuten's piece My Autobiography: Portable with Images are divided into three parts. In addition, the book includes photos of the three writers and their work, as well as quotes from Barthelme himself.

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