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Name
  
Neal Karlen


Role
  
Journalist

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Books
  
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Neal Karlen is an American journalist and non-fiction writer currently living in Minneapolis.

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Early life

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Karlen grew up in a Jewish family in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and attended St. Louis Park High School. He studied Yiddish at Brown University.

Career

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Karlen has been a contributing author to many well-known magazines, including Newsweek, The New York Times, and Rolling Stone.

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)
  • Babes in Toyland: The Making and Selling of a Rock and Roll Band (1995)
  • Jen-X: Jenny McCarthy's Open Book (1997)
  • 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)
  • Shanda: The Making and Breaking of a Self-loathing Jew (2004) Simon and Schuster.
  • The Story of Yiddish: How a Mish-Mosh of Languages Saved the Jews (2009) HarperCollins.
  • Augie's Secrets: The Minneapolis Mob and the King of the Hennepin Strip (2013) Minnesota Historical Society Press.

    • Awards

    Neal was the recipient of the CASEY Award in 1999 for his book Slouching Toward Fargo.

    References

    Neal Karlen Wikipedia
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