Jerome Charyn

Jerome Charyn was born in the Bronx, New York. He entered the New York literary scene in 1963 upon publishing two short stories in Commentary. He has written three memoirs about his childhood in Bronx. He is the author of thirty-eight books, including The Isaac Quartet, Metropolis, etc. Charyn currently resides in New York and Paris, where he is Distinguished Professor of Film Studies at the American University.

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