Charles Derry | The Sun Magazine

Charles Derry

Charles Derry lives in Ohio, but his heart is in the California desert. He is working on a book-length memoir and a novel about Sicilian immigrants in Cleveland during World War II.

— From September 2005
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

A Year Like Any Other

How long will it be, after you die, before the last living person who knew you also dies? And when there is no one left living who remembers you, what will your life mean then, after all of the noise?

September 2005
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