Christopher Klim
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 Speaking at Princeton University |
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| Born: | September 8, 1962 Trenton, New Jersey |
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| Occupation: | novelist, journalist, teacher |
| Influences: | Charles Dickens, William Faulkner, Robert Gover, Hunter S. Thompson |
| Website: | Official: [1], Best New Writing: [2], Writers Notes: [3] |
Christopher Klim (born September 8, 1962) is an American novelist and journalist, best known for the novels Jesus Lives in Trenton and The Winners Circle. He spent his formative years as a space program physicist working on long-range satellites, but broke into the journalism scene after tracking a serial arsonist. His work has been compared to John Steinbeck, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Carl Hiaasen to name a few. His first novel, Jesus Lives in Trenton, became a cult favorite satire on religious fanaticism and read on all continents. This was followed by the fictionalized study of pyromania in Everything Burns, based partly on his experiences as a journalist. Next came The Winners Circle, a satire about the meaning of wealth in America. His work has been praised repeatedly in Booklist, Publisher's Weekly, Kirkus, and other national and international publications. In 2002, he launched the literary journal, Writers Notes Magazine, and in 2007, the anthology Best New Writing. Most recently, he has been associated with the "recaptured literature" movement--a group of top authors writing toward the restoration of literary and cultural sensibilities. He remains a popular public speaker on a broad range of topics from society to the writing craft, and he is often noted as the lead editor in restoring the works of the great American philosopher Eric Hoffer to print, as well as editing American writer Robert Gover's later books.
[edit] Works
- Jesus Lives in Trenton (novel)
- Write to Publish: Essentials for the Modern Fiction and Memoir Market (nonfiction)
- Everything Burns (novel)
- Firecracker Jones is on the Case (juvenile fiction)
- The Winners Circle (novel)
- Idiot! (novel)
