Neal Karlen
Neal Karlen is an American journalist and non-fiction writer currently living in Minneapolis.
Early life
Karlen grew up in a Jewish family in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and attended St. Louis Park High School. [1] He studied Yiddish at Brown University.
Career
Karlen has been a contributing author to many well-known magazines, including Newsweek, The New York Times,[2] and Rolling Stone.[3][4]
He is the author of eight books, and he teaches non-fiction writing at the University of Minnesota's Graduate School of Journalism.
List of books
- Take My Life, Please! - Henny Youngman (1991)
- The Babe in Boyland (1995)[5]
- Babes in Toyland: The Making and Selling of a Rock and Roll Band (1995)[6]
- Jen-X: Jenny McCarthy's Open Book (1997)[7]
- Slouching Toward Fargo: A Two-Year Saga Of Sinners And St. Paul Saints At The Bottom Of The Bush Leagues With Bill Murray, Darryl Strawberry, Dakota Sadie And Me (1999)[8][9][10]
- Shanda: The Making and Breaking of a Self-loathing Jew (2004) Simon and Schuster.[11]
- The Story of Yiddish: How a Mish-Mosh of Languages Saved the Jews (2009) HarperCollins.[12]
- Augie's Secrets: The Minneapolis Mob and the King of the Hennepin Strip (2013) Minnesota Historical Society Press.[13][14]
Awards
Neal was the recipient of the CASEY Award in 1999 for his book Slouching Toward Fargo.
References
- ↑ Jewish Book World. JWB Jewish Book Council. 2004.
- ↑ Charles R. Cross (13 March 2012). Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain. Hyperion. pp. 201–. ISBN 978-1-4013-0451-5.
- ↑ Ex- Rolling Stone Writer Neal Karlen Gets Revenge on Jann Wenner | New York Observer
- ↑ Ronin Ro (25 October 2011). Prince: Inside the Music and the Masks. St. Martin's Press. pp. 133–. ISBN 978-1-4299-5073-2.
- ↑ New York Media, LLC (22 August 1994). New York Magazine. New York Media, LLC. pp. 47–. ISSN 0028-7369.
- ↑ BABES IN TOYLAND by Neal Karlen | Kirkus
- ↑ "Book Review: 'JEN-X: Jenny McCarthy's Open Book' Jenny McCarthy, Neal Karlen". Reviewed by Dana Kennedy, Entertainment Weekly, Nov 14, 1997
- ↑ SLOUCHING TOWARD FARGO by Neal Karlen | Kirkus
- ↑ "Slouching Toward Fargo: A Two-Year Saga of Sinners and St. Paul Saints at the Bottom of the Bush Leagues with Bill Murray, Darryl Strawberry". Publishers Weekly.
- ↑ "Review: Slouching Toward Fargo". Baseball Journeyman.
- ↑ Jewish Book World. JWB Jewish Book Council. 2004.
- ↑ "Mireille Silcoff: On a tongue with no land and the (j)oys of speaking Yiddish". National Post.
- ↑ Review: "Augie's Secrets,’ by Neal Karlen takes us back to notorious days of 1930s' Minneapolis Mob | Star Tribune
- ↑ "Neal Karlen stirs up the mobster ghosts of Hennepin Avenue". MinnPost
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