Christopher Klim

Christopher Klim
Occupation Novelist
Website
www.christopherklim.com

Christopher Klim is an American novelist.

Literary Life

His work has been compared to Dashiell Hammett[1] by Philadelphia Weekly, Carl Hiaasen.[2] by the Times, and John Steinbeck by Robert Gover.[3] Klim said, "[His novel Jesus Lives in Trenton] served as a litmus test, evoking people’s sense of God and religion by the title alone...".[4] Everything Burns is a fictionalized study of pyromania based partly on his experiences as a journalist. His novel The Winners Circle, a satire about the meaning of wealth in America, led The Book Reporter to call him "among the top humor novelists of the day."[5]

In 2005, Klim became the Chairman of the Eric Hoffer Award [6] for books and prose.

From 2007 to 2015, Klim served as the executive editor of Best New Writing [7] which was said to "immediately become a treasured possession” by Walter Cronkite.[8] He was the lead editor in restoring the works of the American writer Eric Hoffer to print[9] as well as editing Robert Gover's later books.

Bibliography

References

  1. ↑ Philadelphia Weekly July 10, 2002 article by Katie Haegele
  2. ↑ Trenton Times, June 2003 by Brad Grois
  3. ↑ Robert Gover, quoted on original hardcover (Creative Arts Books 2002) from article "Old Times, Modern Writers", December 2001 by Gover
  4. ↑ The Compulsive Reader interview with Christopher Klim 2004
  5. ↑ The Book Reporter, http://www.bookreporter.com/reviews2/193343502X.asp
  6. ↑ The Eric Hoffer Award, http://www.hofferaward.com
  7. ↑ Best New Writing, http://www.bestnewwriting.com
  8. ↑ Cronkite's commentary on premiere issue of Best New Writing, Best New Writing 2008.
  9. ↑ Klim is editor of note on eight Hoffer reprints, including The Ordeal of Change, Truth Imagined, and The Passionate State of Mind.
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