Jerome Charyn, a colossus of American letters, is the author of 50 books in the last 50 years, including thirty novels. Michael Chabon calls him “one of the most important writers in American literature.” Jonathan Yardley of the Washington Post said, “Give this guy a Pulitzer…. No one deserves it more.”

 

Charyn’s recent novels have fictionalized the lives of Emily Dickinson, Abraham Lincoln and Jerzy Kosiński. His new book is The Perilous Adventures of the Cowboy King: A Novel of Teddy Roosevelt and His Times (2019), a rollicking tale of the sickly child, NYC Police Commissioner, environmentalist, Rough Rider and “perfect bull in a china shop” who became our 26th president.

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Paul Grondahl, director of the NYS Writers Institute, is the author of I Rose Like a Rocket: The Political Education of Theodore Roosevelt (2004).

 

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