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Rob Sharenow currently serves as President of Programming for A+E Networks®, overseeing all creative development, production and strategy for its brands, including A&E®, The HISTORY® Channel, Lifetime® and HOME.MADE.NATION®.
May 30, 2015 · Rob Sharenow is Executive Vice President and General Manager of Lifetime and A&E Network. In this role, he is responsible for overseeing all creative and strategic business matters for the two networks, including programming, acquisitions, marketing, and brand development.
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Married; children: two daughters. Education: Brandeis University, graduate; New YorkUniversity, M.A. (American studies).
Author and producer of television programming. A&E (television network), vice president, 2003-07, senior vice president of nonfiction and alternative programming, 2007—. Executive producer of History Channel television series The Week in History; co-creator of Extreme History with Roger Daltrey.
American Library Association Best of the Best Books for Young Adults designation, for My Mother the Cheerleader.
JUVENILE FICTION
My Mother the Cheerleader,Laura Geringer Books (New York, NY), 2007. Also author of screenplay Stephen Crane's The Monster.
Robert Sharenow has spent much of his career producing reality-based television. He has been responsible for such popular shows as Dog the Bounty Hunter and Criss Angel: Mind Freak. Inspired by reading another interesting nonfiction story, Travels with Charley, by John Steinbeck, Sharenow decided to write a novel based on some of the events Steinbe...
PERIODICALS
Booklist, July 1, 2007, Hazel Rochman, review of My Mother the Cheerleader,p. 61. Kirkus Reviews, April 1, 2007, review of My Mother the Cheerleader. Kliatt, May, 2007, Myrna Marler, review of My Mother the Cheerleader,p. 20. Publishers Weekly, May 28, 2007, review of My Mother the Cheerleader,p. 65. School Library Journal, July, 2007, Susan Riley, review of My Mother the Cheerleader,p. 110.
ONLINE
A & E Web site,http://www.aetn.com/(September 25, 2008). CableU Web site,http://www.cableu.tv/cableu (September 1, 2008), interview with Sharenow. HarperCollins Web site,http://www.harpercollins.com/(September 1, 2008), interview with Sharenow.
Apr 21, 2015 · In a wide-ranging interview, Sharenow discussed his other life as a young adult novelist, the top-secret Will Ferrell Lifetime movie and the new fight between buyers and sellers. Read More
Rob Sharenow was named President of Programming at A+E Networks® in July 2017. In his role, Sharenow is responsible for overseeing all content for A&E®, Lifetime®, The HISTORY® Channel and the entire A+E Networks® channel portfolio, streamlining the creative structure.
Robert Sharenow is an award-winning writer and television producer. His first novel, My Mother the Cheerleader, was chosen as an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year, a New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age, and a VOYA Top Shelf Fiction for Middle School Readers.
Jan 22, 2018 · Realscreen’s Trailblazers: Robert Sharenow on A&E’s “new era” By Barry Walsh. January 22, 2018. Last year proved to be a rollercoaster ride in many ways, and the non-fiction/unscripted content...
