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Jerome Charyn
writer
Jerome Charyn has been a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and has received the Rosenthal Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His novels include *Johnny One-Eye* and *The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson*. He lives in Paris and New York.