Jerome Charyn

Jerome Charyn ( born 1937 in New York City ) is an American writer. In 1957 he completed a course of study at Columbia University with a Bachelor of Arts in History and Comparative Literature. Today ( 2009) he teaches film studies at the American University of Paris.

Charyn has published 37 stories, mostly crime novels. A recurring figure is the fictional policeman Isaac Sidel.

Two autobiographical works about his childhood and youth in the Bronx were honored by the New York Times Book of the Year. For his novel Darlin ' Bill, he received the Rosenthal Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Crime of 2008 ( 6th place), he was in the crime world leaderboard with Citizen Sidel.

Works (selection)

Autobiographical

  • The dark beauty from Belarus ( "The dark lady from Beloruss "). Hard -Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-8286-0124-3.
  • The black swan. A reminder of the Bronx ( "The black swan" ). Hard -Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-8286-0152-9.

Biographies

  • Raised by wolves. The turbulent art and times of Quentin Tarantino. Thunder Mouth Press, New York 2006, ISBN 1-56025-858-6.
  • Savage Shorthand. The life and death of Isaac Babel. Random House, New York 2005, ISBN 0-679-64306-0.

Comics (illustrated by Jacques de Loustal )

  • The brothers Adamov ( " Les frères Adamov "). Verlag Schreiber & readers, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-922548-83-0
  • Sonya White ( "White Sonya" ) Verlag Schreiber & readers, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-933187-39-7.

Detective novels

  • Isaac Quartet
  • Paradise Man. Roman ( " Paradise man"). Red Book -Verlag, Hamburg 1996, ISBN 3-88022-391-2.
  • Citizen Sidel. New York rock hard ( "Citizen Sidel "). Red Book -Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-86789-039-7.

Novels

  • Captain Kidd. St. Martin's Press, New York 1999, ISBN 0-312-20506-6.
  • Elsinore. Bloomsbury, London 1992, ISBN 0-7475-1015-6.
  • Death of a Tango King. Roman ( "Death of a tango -king "). Union Verlag, Zurich 2000, ISBN 3-293-20180-6.
  • Hurricane lady. Mysterious Press, New York 2001, ISBN 0-446-67733-7.
  • Johnny One-Eye. A tale of the American Revolution. Norton Books, New York 2008, ISBN 978-0-393-06497-1.

Non-fiction

  • Gangsters and gold diggers. Old New York, the jazz age, and the birth of Broadway. Four Walls Eight Windows Edition, New York 2003, ISBN 1-568-58278-1.
  • Metropolis New York ( "Metropolis "). Dtv, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-423-11258-1.
  • Sizzling chops and devilish spins. Four Walls Eight windoiws Edition, New York 2001, ISBN 1-56858-207-2.
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