Jerome Charyn

Jerome Charyn is the author of Big Red: A Novel Starring Rita Hayworth and Orson Welles. “One of the most important writers in American literature” (Michael Chabon), 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.

Immortal Rita Hayworth Walked in Beauty Shadowed by Tragedy

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She brought enchantment to every corner of the world with a movie screen. So why couldn’t she be happy?

Jerome Charyn | Published Sep 03, 2022

Lincoln Authors Can’t Agree on Lincoln

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Novelists Tom LeClair and Jerome Charyn talk about their respective experiences of dealing with the ever mysterious Honest Abe in their fiction.

Tom LeClair, Jerome Charyn | Published Feb 12, 2015

Lincoln in Love

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<p>Biographers and historians always miss the sensual Lincoln, the man who might have visited prostitutes and passionately wooed Mary Todd. Jerome Charyn, the author of <i><a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/Am-Abraham-Novel-Lincoln-Civil/dp/0871404273/">I Am Abraham</a></i> finds the romance in an icon.</p>

Jerome Charyn | Published Feb 14, 2014