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Jerome Charyn
American writer (born 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.[1]
Michael Chabon calls him "one of the most important writers in American literature".[2]New York Newsday hailed Charyn as "a contemporary American Balzac",[3] and the Los Angeles Times described him as "absolutely unique among American writers".[4]
Charyn's first novel, Once Upon a Droshky, was published in 1964.
With Blue Eyes (1975), the debut of detective character Isaac Sidel, Charyn attracted wide attention and acclaim.[5] 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