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About Jerome Charyn

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.

Michael Chabon calls him "one of the most important writers in American literature". New York Newsday hailed Charyn as "a contemporary American Balzac", and the Los Angeles Times described him as "absolutely unique among American writers".

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. 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 the Year. Charyn has been a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Charyn was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in Fiction, 1983. He received the Rosenthal Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and has been named Commander of Arts and Letter (Ordre des Arts et des Lettres) by the French Minister of Culture.

Jerome Charyn writes about Fiction, New york (n.y.), fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Sidel, isaac (fictitious character), fiction, Isaac Sidel (Fictitious character), and New York (State). Their best-known work is Paradise man: a novel.

On FindMyTBR we track 10 books by Jerome Charyn, 7 of them confirmed as audiobooks on Spotify or Apple Books — including Big Red : A Novel Starring Rita Hayworth and Orson Welles, Cesare : A Tale of War-Torn Berlin, and I Am Abraham. Full availability across Spotify, Apple Books, Audible, and Amazon is below.