Jerome Charyn is an award-winning American author. With more than 50 published works, Charyn has earned a long-standing reputation as an inventive and prolific chronicler of real and imagined American life.
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist 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.”
Since the 1964 release of Charyn’s first novel, Once Upon a Droshky, he has published thirty novels, three memoirs, eight 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.\
Books in order of publication:
Isaac Sidel series
Blue Eyes, Simon & Schuster, 1975
Marilyn the Wild, Arbor House, 1976
The Education of Patrick Silver, Arbor House, 1976
Secret Isaac, Arbor House, 1978
The Good Policeman, Mysterious Press, 1990
Maria’s Girls, Warner Books, 1992
Montezuma’s Man, Warner Books, 1993
Little Angel Street, Warner Books, 1995
El Bronx, Warner Books, 1997
Citizen Sidel, Mysterious Press, 1999
Under the Eye of God, Mysterious Press and Open Road Media, 2012
Winter Warning: An Isaac Sidel Novel, Pegasus Books, October 2017
The Isaac Quartet, Four Walls Eight Windows, 2002 (Omnibus of the first four Sidel novels)
Other novels
Once upon a Droshky, McGraw-Hill, 1964
On the Darkening Green, McGraw-Hill, 1965
The Man Who Grew Younger, Harper & Row, 1967
Going To Jerusalem, Viking, 1967
American Scrapbook, Viking, 1969
Eisenhower, My Eisenhower, Holt, 1971
The Tar Baby, Holt, 1973
The Franklin Scare, Arbor House, 1977
The Seventh Babe, Arbor House, 1979
The Catfish Man, Arbor House, 1980
Darlin’ Bill, Arbor House, 1980
Panna Maria, Arbor House, 1982
Pinocchio’s Nose, Arbor House, 1983
War Cries Over Avenue C, Donald I. Fine, 1985
Paradise Man, Donald I. Fine, 1987
Elsinore, Warner Books, 1991
Back to Bataan, Farrar, Straus (for younger readers), 1993
Death of a Tango King, New York University Press, 1998
Captain Kidd, St. Martin’s Press, 1999
Hurricane Lady, Warner Books, 2001
The Green Lantern, Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2004
Johnny One-Eye: A Tale of the American Revolution, W.W.Norton, 2008
The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson, W.W.Norton, 2010
I Am Abraham: A Novel of Lincoln and the Civil War. W. W. Norton & Company. February 3, 2014.
Jerzy: A Novel, Bellevue Literary Press, March 2017
The Perilous Adventures of the Cowboy King: A Novel of Teddy Roosevelt and His Times, Liveright, 2019
Cesare: A Novel of War-Torn Berlin, Bellevue Literary Press, 2020
Sergeant Salinger, Bellevue Literary Press, 2021
Big Red, Liveright, 2022
Short stories and collections (selected)
The Man Who Grew Younger and Other Stories, Harper, 1967
Bitter Bronx: Thirteen Stories, Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2015,
“The Blue Book of Crime”, in The New Black Mask, Harcourt Brace, 1986
“Fantomas in New York”, in A Matter of Crime, Harcourt Brace, 1988
“Young Isaac”, in The Armchair Detective, 1990
Non-fiction
Metropolis: New York as Myth, Marketplace and Magical Land, Putnam’s, 1986
Movieland: Hollywood and the Great American Dream Culture, Putnam’s, 1989, New York University Press, 1996
The Dark Lady from Belorusse, St. Martin’s Press, 1997
Hemingway : Portrait de l’artiste en guerrier blessé, coll. Découvertes Gallimard (nº 371), Paris: Gallimard, 1999
The Black Swan, St. Martin’s Press, 2000
Sizzling Chops & Devilish Spins: Ping-Pong and the Art of Staying Alive, Four Walls Eight Windows, 2001
Bronx Boy: A Memoir. St. Martin’s Press. April 11, 2002.
Gangsters & Gold Diggers: Old New York, the Jazz Age, and the Birth of Broadway, Four Walls Eight Windows, 2003
Savage Shorthand: The Life and Death of Isaac Babel. Random House Publishing Group. December 18, 2007.
Inside the Hornet’s Head: an anthology of Jewish American Writing, Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2005
Raised by Wolves: The Turbulent Art and Times of Quentin Tarantino, Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2005
Marilyn : La dernière déesse, Découvertes Gallimard (n° 517), Gallimard, 2007
Marilyn: The Last Goddess [an illustrated biography of Marilyn Monroe from Abrams Discoveries series], Abrams, 2008
Joe DiMaggio: The Long Vigil, Yale University Press, American Icon series, March 2011
A Loaded Gun: Emily Dickinson for the 21st Century, Bellevue Literary Press, March 2016
Selected plays and documentaries
George (three-act play) developed at the Actors Studio, under Arthur Penn, staged readings at La Maison des Ecrivains (Paris 1988) and Ubu Repertory Theater (NY 1990)
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