Neal Karlen is the author of eight books on a range of topics including vaudeville, baseball, religious fundamentalism and linguistics. He was an associate editor for Newsweek, a contributing editor for Rolling Stone and a regular contributor for the New York Times. He teaches creative writing at Augsburg College.
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Neal was the recipient of the CASEY Award in 1999 for his book Slouching Toward Fargo.
The Prince Story: Icon, Genius... Slave- Neal is a character in this movie.
Recent Books
Coming Soon
Neal's Prince book is coming soon...
Augie’s Secrets: The Minneapolis Mob and the King of the Hennepin Strip
There's an old Yiddish saying: two people can keep a secret if one of them is dead. But two living…
The Story of Yiddish: How a Mish-Mosh of Languages Saved the Jews
Yiddish—an oft-considered "gutter" language—is an unlikely survivor of the ages, much like the Jews themselves. Its survival has been an…
Shanda: The Making and Breaking of a Self-Loathing Jew
Neal Karlen describes the rejection and subsequent embrace of the Jewish faith, remembering his childhood as the son of Orthodox…
