Jerome Charyn

Jerome Charyn is an award-winning American author, with more than 50 published works.  He has earned a long-standing reputation as an inventive and prolific chronicler of real and imagined American life.

Since the 1964 release of his 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.

Jerome taught at Princeton, Columbia, NYU, Rice, City University of New York - always as a visiting professor - and then at The American University of Paris where he started his own film department. In addition to writing and teaching, Jerome is a tournament table tennis player, once ranked in the top ten percent of players in France.

We will be talking about his newly released novel.  Big Red reimagines the tragic career of Rita Hayworth and her indomitable husband, Orson Welles. As you will hear, Jerome is a storyteller and taught himself to write at a very young age.