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Jerome Charyn
“One of the most important writers in American literature” (Michael Chabon), Jerome Charyn is the award-winning author of more than fifty works, including The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson. A renowned scholar of twentieth-century Hollywood, he lives in Manhattan.
Books by Jerome Charyn
I Am Abraham: A Novel of Lincoln and the Civil War
Jerome Charyn
Hardback, 2014
Narrated in Lincoln’s own voice, the tragicomic I Am Abraham promises to be the masterwork of Jerome Charyn’s remarkable career.Johnny One-Eye: A Tale of the American Revolution
Jerome Charyn
Hardback, 2008
"A rollicking tale."—Stacy Schiff, New York Times Book Review, Editors' ChoiceJohnny One-Eye: A Tale of the American Revolution
Jerome Charyn
Paperback, 2009
"A rollicking tale." --Stacy Schiff, New York Times Book Review, Editors' ChoiceThe Secret Life of Emily Dickinson: A Novel
Jerome Charyn
Hardback, 2010
“There's nothing quite like a Charyn novel. . . . His sentences make a mournful and sensational clatter, like a bundle of butcher knives dropped on a cathedral floor.” —Jonathan Yardley, Washington...The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson: A Novel
Jerome Charyn
Paperback, 2011
"In this brilliant and hilarious jailbreak of a novel, Charyn channels the genius poet and her great leaps of the imagination." —Donna Seaman, Booklist (starred review)I Am Abraham: A Novel of Lincoln and the Civil War
Jerome Charyn
Paperback, 2015
Jerome Charyn’s “daring” and “memorable” (The New Yorker) historical novel renders the inner life of our sixteenth president like never before.The Perilous Adventures of the Cowboy King: A Novel of Teddy Roosevelt and His Times
Jerome Charyn
Hardback, 2020
"Charyn, like Nabokov, is that most fiendish sort of writer—so seductive as to beg imitation, so singular as to make imitation impossible." —Tom BissellThe Perilous Adventures of the Cowboy King: A Novel of Teddy Roosevelt and His Times
Jerome Charyn
Paperback, 2020
Teddy Roosevelt comes to comic life in Jerome Charyn’s “tremendous[ly] fun . . . delightful novel” (Ron Charles, Washington Post).Johnny One-Eye: A Tale of the American Revolution
Jerome Charyn
E Book, 2008
"A rollicking tale."—Stacy Schiff, New York Times Book Review, Editors' ChoiceThe Secret Life of Emily Dickinson: A Novel
Jerome Charyn
E Book, 2011
"In this brilliant and hilarious jailbreak of a novel, Charyn channels the genius poet and her great leaps of the imagination." —Donna Seaman, Booklist (starred review)