1. Noah Charney was born on November 27,1979 and is an American art historian and novelist based in Slovenia.
11 Facts About Noah Charney
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Noah Charney is the author of The Art Thief, a mystery novel about a series of thefts from European museums and churches, and is the founder of the Association for Research into Crimes against Art.
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Noah Charney attended Choate Rosemary Hall, and received his undergraduate education at Colby College in Maine, where he majored in Art History and English Literature.
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Noah Charney subsequently attended Cambridge University, St John's College, where he received a second Masters in History of Art, writing on Bronzino's London Allegory, and began a PhD, but chose not to complete his thesis.
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Noah Charney taught at Cambridge University's summer program and at Miami Dade College's program in Florence.
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Noah Charney is currently an adjunct professor of art history at the American University in Rome.
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Noah Charney has been a visiting scholar at the Institute of Criminology in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
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Noah Charney is the editor of Art and Crime, a collection of original essays by experts in the field, published by Praeger Press in the Spring of 2009.
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Noah Charney's column, "How I Write", which featured interviews with writers such as Oliver Sacks, Barbara Kingsolver, Jodi Picoult, Stephen Greenblatt, and Andre Aciman, was a regular feature in The Daily Beast from 2012 to 2014.
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Noah Charney published The Art of Forgery, which explores the world of art forgeries.
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In 2022, Noah Charney was the writer and presenter of the three-part BBC Radio 4 series China's Stolen Treasures.