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Charles Dickinson is the author of the novels A Shortcut in Time, The Widows’ Adventures, Crows, Rumor Has It and Waltz in Marathon, and the short-story collection With or Without. His stories have been twice included in the O. Henry Awards. His fiction and non-fiction have appeared in the New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, Grand Street, the Pikestaff Forum, The New York Times Book Review, the Chicago Sun-Times and the Chicago Tribune. He is an editor at the Chicago Tribune and lives in Arlington Heights, Illnois.

Selected Works

Fiction

A Shortcut in Time
“Reminiscent of Richard Matheson’s Somewhere in Time (Bid Time Return). A one-sitting read.”

--Frank M. Robinson

The Widows’ Adventures
"The Widows’ Adventures is full of wit...Dickinson displays all the marks of a great writer.”

--Philadelphia Inquirer

Crows
“An elegant invention by a writer with impressive talents.”

--Philadelphia Inquirer

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