Charles Ardai (born 1969) is an entrepreneur, writer, and editor. Year 1969 ( MCMLXIX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. An entrepreneur is a person who has possession over a company enterprise, or Venture, and assumes significant accountability for the inherent risks and the outcome A writer is anyone who creates a written work although the word usually designates those who write creatively or professionally as well as those who have written in many different forms Editing Language, Images or Sound through correction condensation organization and other modifications in various media He is best known as the founder and CEO of Juno, an Internet company, and more recently as the founder and editor of Hard Case Crime, a line of pulp-style paperback crime novels. A chief executive officer ( CEO) or chief executive is typically the highest-ranking corporate officer ( executive) or administrator Juno client software icon Juno Hard Case Crime is an American publisher of Paperback Hardboiled Crime novels founded in 2004 by Charles Ardai, also known as the founder of the
Ardai's writing has appeared in mystery magazines such as Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, gaming magazines such as Computer Gaming World and Electronic Games, and anthologies such as Best Mysteries of the Year and The Year's Best Horror Stories. Computer Gaming World ( CGW) was founded in 1981 by Russell Sipe as a bimonthly publication Electronic Games was the first Video game Magazine published in the United States and ran from 1981 to 1984 Ardai has also edited numerous short story collections such as The Return of the Black Widowers, Great Tales of Madness and the Macabre, and Futurecrime. The short story is a literary genre of Fictional Prose Narrative that tends to be more concise and to the point than longer works of fiction such His first novel, Little Girl Lost, was published in 2004 and was nominated for both the Edgar Allan Poe Award by the Mystery Writers of America and the Shamus Award by the Private Eye Writers of America; his second, Songs of Innocence, was called "an instant classic" by the Washington Post and selected as one of the best books of the year by Publishers Weekly. "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " Mystery Writers of America is an organization for mystery writers based in New York. The Shamus Award is awarded by the Private Eye Writers of America for the best Private eye genre novel and short story of the year The Washington Post is the largest and most circulated Newspaper in Washington D Publishers Weekly, aka PW, is an American weekly trade News magazine targeted at Publishers Librarians Both books were written under the alias Richard Aleas. Charles Ardai (born 1969 is an Entrepreneur, Writer, and editor. Ardai previously received a Shamus nomination for the short story Nobody Wins and he received the Edgar Award in 2007 for the short story The Home Front. The Edgar Allan Poe Awards (popularly called the Edgars) named after Edgar Allan Poe, are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America.
Ardai also serves as a managing director of the D. E. Shaw group, in which capacity he is responsible for technology ventures such as Schrodinger, a leading developer of software for computational chemistry, and Attenuon, a pharmaceutical company developing a new generation of therapeutics for the treatment of cancer. D E Shaw & Co is a New York -based Hedge fund, Private equity and technology development firm whose activities center on various aspects of the intersection
Ardai attended Columbia University, where he graduated summa cum laude in 1991. Columbia University is a private University in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. Latin honors are Latin phrases used to indicate the level of academic distinction with which an Academic degree was earned Year 1991 ( MCMXCI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar. He graduated from Hunter College High School in 1987. For other uses of the acronym HCHS, see HCHS (disambiguation. Year 1987 ( MCMLXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link displays 1987 Gregorian calendar)
Ardai is married to writer Naomi Novik[1]. Naomi Novik ( April 30, 1973 — is an American novelist She was born in New York in 1973 a second-generation American They live in Manhattan.