JEROME CHARYN is an award-winning American author. His first novel, Once Upon a Droshky, was published in 1964; and with his eighth novel Blue Eyes (1975), the debut of detective character Isaac Sidel, Charyn attracted wide attention and acclaim. With more than 50 published works, including novels, memoirs, graphic novels, short stories, plays, and creative nonfiction, Charyn has earned a long-standing reputation as an inventive and prolific chronicler of real and imagined American life. Two of his memoirs have been named a New York Times Book of the Year, and Charyn has received numerous awards, including a 1983 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in Fiction and a Rosenthal Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. A finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, Charyn has also been named Commander of Arts and Letters (Ordre des Arts et des Lettres) by the French Minister of Culture. Silver Wolves is his first young adult novel.