The author was born in the Bronx in 1937. He has written 37 books, including three memoirs about his childhood in the Bronx, THE DARK LADY FROM BELORUSSE , THE BLACK SWAN, and BRONX BOY,the first two of which were named New York Times Book Of the Year .
REVIEWS: " The richest imagination in contemporary American letters."- Lawrence Block. "He is to the Bronx what Saul Bellow, early in his career, was to Upper Broadway-bard, celebrant, mythologizer."-Washington Post
He has written several detective novels, including Blue Eyes and Citizen Sidel. His latest book of nonfiction, Sizzling Chops and Devilish Spins, was published in November 2001. Book description: Ping-pong is played in every corner of the world by over 250 million people, cast a hypnotic spell on the author's imagination early on. The novel portrays the great pongistes, from Ruth Aaron on.
His latest novel: JOHNNY ONE EYE
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to Jerome Charyn on U Tube interview
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Gangsters And Gold Diggers : published 10/2003
Gangsters and Gold Diggers
Old New York, the Jazz Age, and the Birth of Broadway
Jerome Charyn
Description:
In this heady tribute to an unforgettable time and place, Jerome Charyn takes readers back to the golden era when Broadway the street became Broadway the legend. While Damon
Runyon was the street’s first chronicler, revealing its good-guy gangsters and moxie’d molls, Charyn enlarges the story, capturing Broadway’s vagabond nature, outlaw culture, and
self-mythologizing. In cinematic prose, one of New York’s quintessential contemporary writers brings a rollicking, rough-and-tumble time in the city’s history to life, conjuring an intoxicating portrait of Jazz Age excess by examining the denizens of that greatest of all “staggering
machine[s] of desire,” Broadway. The stellar cast in this popular history includes Mae West, Fanny Brice, Legs Diamond, Irving Berlin, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, and many more. 30 historic black-and-white photographs are featured.
The Green Lantern, which was nominated for the PEN/Faulkner award for fiction
published October 2005
SAVAGE SHORTHAND, The Life and Death of
ISAAC BABEL
Published June 2006
The author's brother, Harvey Charyn, is a former NYPD 1st grade homicide detective. He is a licensed private investigator based in New York.
A link to his home page: http://harveycharyn.com
A link to Amazon.com:http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0312208774/qid/jeromecharyn
The author's E-Mail: mail to:jeromecharyn@aol.com
