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Jerome Charyn

Jerome Charyn
Jerome Charyn is the author of more than fifty works of fiction and nonfiction, including In the Shadow of King Saul: Essays on Silence and Song; Jerzy: A Novel; and A Loaded Gun: Emily Dickinson for the 21st Century. Among other honors, his work has been longlisted for the PEN Award for Biography, shortlisted for the Phi Beta Kappa Christian Gauss Award, and selected as a finalist for the Firecracker Award and PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Charyn has also been named a Commander of Arts and Letters by the French Minister of Culture and received a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in New York.


Jerome Charyn on Finding Literary Inspiration at the Movie Theater

“I didn’t have to stumble with words on a page. Images on the screen became my vocabulary.”
August 25, 2022  By Jerome Charyn
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On the Cruelty and Tenderness of Isaac Babel

Jerome Charyn Meets the Daughter of a Master
August 28, 2018  By Jerome Charyn
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Neither Mad Nor Motherless: On Emily Dickinson’s Self-Creation

Of Mothers and Daughters and Not-So-Crazy Poets
March 22, 2016  By Jerome Charyn
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