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

1. Jewish Book World. JWB Jewish Book Council. 2004.
2. Charles R. Cross (13 March 2012). Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain. Hyperion. pp. 201–. ISBN 978-1-4013-0451-5.
3. Ex- Rolling Stone Writer Neal Karlen Gets Revenge on Jann Wenner | New York Observer
4. Ronin Ro (25 October 2011). Prince: Inside the Music and the Masks. St. Martin's Press. pp. 133–. ISBN 978-1-4299-5073-2.
5. New York Media, LLC (22 August 1994). New York Magazine. New York Media, LLC. pp. 47–. ISSN 0028-7369.
6. BABES IN TOYLAND by Neal Karlen | Kirkus
7. "Book Review: 'JEN-X: Jenny McCarthy's Open Book' Jenny McCarthy, Neal Karlen". Reviewed by Dana Kennedy, Entertainment Weekly, Nov 14, 1997
8. SLOUCHING TOWARD FARGO by Neal Karlen | Kirkus
9. "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.
10. "Review: Slouching Toward Fargo". Baseball Journeyman.
11. Jewish Book World. JWB Jewish Book Council. 2004.
12. "Mireille Silcoff: On a tongue with no land and the (j)oys of speaking Yiddish". National Post.
13. Review: "Augie's Secrets,’ by Neal Karlen takes us back to notorious days of 1930s' Minneapolis Mob | Star Tribune
14. "Neal Karlen stirs up the mobster ghosts of Hennepin Avenue". MinnPost