Christopher Klim 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 became a journalist after tracking a serial arsonist. His work has been compared to John Steinbeck, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Carl Hiaasen. His first novel, Jesus Lives in Trenton, became "a cult favorite satire on religious fanaticism. " -.
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- Christopher Klim 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 became a journalist after tracking a serial arsonist. His work has been compared to John Steinbeck, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Carl Hiaasen. His first novel, Jesus Lives in Trenton, became "a cult favorite satire on religious fanaticism. " -. Klim said, "JLIT served as a litmus test, evoking people’s sense of God and religion by the title alone... " - (The Compulsive Reader, 2004). Everything Burnsis 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, lead The Book Reporter to call him "among the top humor novelists of the day. " His work has been praised repeatedly in Booklist, Publishers 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. He remains a popular public speaker on a broad range of topics from society to the writing craft. He is often noted as the lead editor in restoring the works of the American philosopher Eric Hoffer to print, as well as editing American writer Robert Gover's latter books. Christopher Klim is currently a professor of journalism at The College of New Jersey. He is a member of the Society of Professional Journalists and the Association of Documentary Editors at the University of Virginia. He is also the chair of the Eric Hoffer Award for books and prose.
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