In her Letters to Men and Women of Letters, Diane Joy Charney writes to the authors she admires, both living and dead, who continue to keep her company. Her letters reflect what these writers have taught Charney about herself, but also what they can offer the reader. Each letter-part literary love affair, part entertaining memoir-shows Charney's reaction to having studied and taught the work of these timeless writers. She was a latecomer to many of them, but it's never too late to fall in love with great writers.
Among these are Franz Kafka, George Eliot, Proust, Nabokov, Camus, Colette, Flaubert, Edith Wharton, Balzac, Leonard Cohen, Christo, and her father. Her letters have been described as quirky ("Dear Jean-Paul Sartre, There have been many Jean-Pauls in my life, but you're the only one in whose bedroom I have slept"), warm, accessible, and funny.
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Diane Joy Charney, PhD, has taught at Yale University for thirty-three years as a Lecturer in French, in Creative Writing, and as Writing Tutor-in-Residence. She studied at University of Rochester, La Sorbonne in Paris from which she was awarded the Diplôme Supérieur d'Études Françaises and received her PhD from Duke University.
A lifelong musician (piano, flute, viola), Diane studied at Juilliard and the Eastman School of Music. An enthusiastic chamber musician, she enjoys playing in Yale student orchestras where she tries to hide behind the better players and never play any unintended solos. Among her other passions are yoga, growing her own food, ballet, and tap dance.
She has been president of the Center for Independent Study and directed Yale's Mellon Senior Forum for 25 years. In addition to academic writing, Diane's writing background includes restaurant and book reviews, and poetry. As a student in Paris, she lived in Jean-Paul Sartre's childhood apartment. Her PhD thesis was on André Pieyre de Mand
