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Jerome Charyn was born on 13 May, 1937 in New York City, U.S., is an American writer (born 1937). Discover Jerome Charyn's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 87 years old?

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Occupation Novelist playwright author
Age 87 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 13 May 1937
Birthday 13 May
Birthplace New York City, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1937

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

With nearly 50 published works over a 50-year span, Charyn has a long-standing reputation as an inventive and prolific chronicler of real and imagined American life, writing in multiple genres.

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".

1959

Turning from painting to literature, Charyn enrolled at Columbia University, where he studied history and comparative literature with a focus on Russian literature, graduating Phi Beta Kappa and cum laude (BA, 1959).

Charyn became interested in writing a crime novel after discovering Ross MacDonald's The Galton Case (1959).

What impressed Charyn most was the narrative voice of sleuth Lew Archer—at once sympathetic and detached, who "deliver[s] both a landscape and a past without least hint of sentimentality."

The experiences of Charyn's brother, Harvey, an NYPD homicide detective, added authenticity to this popular series, which attracted a cult following worldwide.

After the limited success of his earlier works, Charyn considered publishing the first Sidel novel under what he described as the Marrano pen name of Joseph da Silva (i.e., to obscure his Jewish origins), but was convinced by his agent to use his birth name.

The ten books were translated into seven languages and remained in print for three decades.

1962

From 1962 through 1964, Charyn taught at his alma mater, Manhattan's High School of Music and Art, and at High School of Performing Arts, popularized in the movie Fame.

1964

Charyn's first novel, Once Upon a Droshky, was published in 1964.

1965

Charyn lectured in English at the City College of New York in 1965.

He was assistant professor of English at Stanford University from 1965 to 1968.

1975

With Blue Eyes (1975), the debut of detective character Isaac Sidel, Charyn attracted wide attention and acclaim.

1979

He served as a visiting professor in colleges across the country, including Rice University in 1979 and Princeton University, from 1981 until 1986.

1983

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

He received the Rosenthal Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and has been named Commander of Arts and Letter (Ordre des Arts et des Lettres) by the French Minister of Culture.

1988

From 1988 to 1989, Charyn was Distinguished Professor at the City College of New York.

1991

In 1991, Charyn co-produced and co-wrote a TV pilot starring Ron Silver as The Good Policemen.

1995

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

Charyn serves on the advisory board of the Laboratoire d'Études et de Recherche sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA), a research centre at Aix-Marseille University.

Charyn often returns to his native Bronx in many of his writings, including a book appropriately named El Bronx.

Michael Woolf, who wrote Exploding the Genre: The Crime Fiction of Jerome Charyn, says of Charyn: "Of all the novelists characterized as Jewish-American, Charyn is the most radical and inventive. There is in the body of his work a restless creativity which constantly surprises and repeatedly undermines the reader's expectation."

One of Charyn's best-known protagonists is Isaac Sidel, a Jewish New York police detective turned mayor, who is the subject of eleven crime novels, including Blue Eyes and Citizen Sidel.

1998

Charyn's eight graphic novels were teamed him up with artists like Jacques de Loustal, José Antonio Muñoz and François Boucq, together with whom he won the 1998 Angoulême Grand Prix.

2009

Charyn was Distinguished Professor of Film Studies at the American University of Paris until 2009, when he retired from teaching.

In addition to his writing and teaching, Charyn is a tournament table tennis player, once ranked in the top 10 percent of players in France.

Novelist Don DeLillo called Charyn's book on table tennis, Sizzling Chops & Devilish Spins, "The Sun Also Rises of ping-pong".

Charyn lives in Paris and New York City.

Charyn was born in the Bronx, New York City, to Sam and Fanny (Paley) Charyn.

In order to escape its mean streets, Charyn immersed himself in comic books and cinema.

Books were scarce in the Charyn household, save for volume "A" of the Book of Knowledge.

After becoming all too well versed in astronomy and aardvarks, Charyn hungered for more.

He attended The High School of Music and Art in Manhattan, majoring in painting.

2012

More recently, in April 2012, Otto Penzler, founder of Mysterious Press, reissued the entire series as eBooks, co-published by Open Road Media.

The October 2012, publication of Under the Eye of God, the first new Sidel thriller in a decade, rebooted the series ahead of a planned adult animated TV drama, to be titled Hard Apple.

2017

As of 2017, Charyn has published 37 novels, three memoirs, nine 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.