1. Jerome Charyn was born on May 13,1937 and is an American writer.
26 Facts About Jerome Charyn
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Jerome Charyn was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in Fiction, 1983.
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Jerome Charyn received the Rosenthal Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and has been named Commander of Arts and Letter by the French Minister of Culture.
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Jerome Charyn was Distinguished Professor of Film Studies at the American University of Paris until 2009, when he retired from teaching.
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Jerome Charyn was born in the Bronx, New York City, to Sam and Fanny Jerome Charyn.
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Books were scarce in the Jerome Charyn household, save for volume "A" of the Book of Knowledge.
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Jerome Charyn attended The High School of Music and Art in Manhattan, majoring in painting.
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From 1962 through 1964, Jerome 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.
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Jerome Charyn lectured in English at the City College of New York in 1965.
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Jerome Charyn was assistant professor of English at Stanford University from 1965 to 1968.
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Jerome Charyn served as a visiting professor in colleges across the country, including Rice University in 1979 and Princeton University, from 1981 until 1986.
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From 1988 to 1989, Jerome Charyn was Distinguished Professor at the City College of New York.
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From 1995 to 2008, Jerome Charyn taught film at American University of Paris, where he is Distinguished Professor emeritus.
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Jerome Charyn serves on the advisory board of the Laboratoire d'Etudes et de Recherche sur le Monde Anglophone, a research centre at Aix-Marseille University.
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Jerome Charyn became interested in writing a crime novel after discovering Ross Macdonald's The Galton Case.
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In 1991, Jerome Charyn co-produced and co-wrote a TV pilot starring Ron Silver as The Good Policemen.
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Jerome Charyn himself says comic books helped him learn to read.
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Jerome Charyn's books have been translated into French, German, Italian, Spanish, Greek, Chinese and 11 other languages.
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Jerome Charyn served as judge for the 2011 National Book Awards in Fiction.
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Jerome Charyn is represented by the literary agency headed by Georges Borchardt.
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Some critics felt that Jerome Charyn was much too brazen in writing in poet Emily Dickinson's voice and surrounding her with invented characters.
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Jerome Charyn says he drew inspiration for his novel from Emily Dickinson's letters and poems.
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In 2007 Jerome Charyn was asked by the literary website Smyles and Fish, along with lifelong friend, novelist Frederic Tuten, to write an essay about their former colleague and friend Donald Barthelme.
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In 1968, Jerome Charyn joined Noam Chomsky, Dr Benjamin Spock, Gloria Steinem, William Styron, Kurt Vonnegut, Joan Baez, Allen Ginsberg, Susan Sontag, Thomas Pynchon, Henry Miller, James Baldwin and more than 400 others in signing the "Writers and Editors War Tax Protest" pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War.
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Jerome Charyn has lived in Greenwich Village, the Bronx, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Palo Alto, California, Houston, Austin, Texas, Paris and Barcelona.
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Jerome Charyn is married to Lenore Riegel, mother of actress Eden Riegel and voice actor Sam Riegel.