Victor Chen

About Victor Chen

Victor Chen was born in China in 1945 and educated in the U.S. and Britain. He attended public and private schools in New York State and took degrees at Yale, Harvard, and Oxford. He became a U.S. citizen on July 13, 1964. In the 1970s he was on the staff of The New Yorker. He is on Twitter @vcchen. Much of his writing, he is convinced, is sane, enjoyable, and valuable. A spokesman for Amazon says, "there are no selling restrictions on these titles." .

(I have received a phone message from Amazon that a certain amount might be automatically withdrawn from some bank account of mine associated with Amazon. It's not clear what might be meant by this, but be wary of counterfeit or stolen writing--including works from "other sellers" with Amazon.)

More and more falsehoods have been appearing in my handwritten papers, in bound printed editions of my books, in financial statements offered by my bank, and in documents I have filed in the courts named at the bottom of this author's bio.

On "Existing: Selected Archives": Ten printed copies of this book were delivered to me in early 2021: I am now allowing this book to continue to be sold on Amazon for the value of its remaining contents even though they appear to be missing such originally included articles as "The Memorial and the Delta Variant," "Don't Drink the Water," "Breslin and Ms.Yuh," and an internet note about some enormously costly "underwater ice wall" to be built at the "Fukushima Nuclear Plant" in Japan. I continue to work on these and other subjects.

Dec. 13, 2022:

A large additional collection of writings, "Candid and Unlabored: Unpublished Works," is available to be ordered directly from my home. The collection has four Parts, and can be ordered in any of five boxed Volumes, for $50 plus cost of photocopying and USPS shipping for each or any Volume.

Vols. 1, 2, 3, and 5 are now complete and no longer “in progress.” To any who reads or claims to possess any of my writing (which has much to say on important history, as well as some simply enjoyable things): can you show you came by the writing legally?

Vol. 1 (Part I): my Oxford B.Litt. thesis, "The Robbins Report on Higher Education."

Vol. 2: (Part II): “Assorted Unpublished Papers to the Early ‘70s . . ,” mainly covering the Vietnam War years.

Vol. 3 (from Part III)--Articles and Stories, Unpublished, 1981-2021, and

Vol. 4 (from Part III)—Unpublished Articles and Papers 2022

--these last two particular volumes cover many subjects especially crimes and myths since the John F. Kennedy "assassination."

Vol; 5 (Part IV): New York Journals: 1995-1996.

I hope that each of these volumes, and each of my earlier books, will one day have a complete, accurate, useful index.

Order from 290 Riverside Drive, Apt. 14C, New York, NY 10025. vcperson@gmail.com.

[I have received no orders from anyone for any volume of "Candid and Unlabored" and have entered into no agreement with anyone else for them to receive orders. i appreciate Amazon's allowing me to put this author's bio on my Amazon Author Page, but Amazon, too, has no right to take orders for or to promise to sell "Candid and Unlabored" on my behalf. This author's bio clearly gives only one way to acquire any pages of this work: write to me at the address stated.]

The National Archives at New York City, at 1 Bowling Green, has at least certain records of my naturalization July 13, 1964. I have had to send the people at Bowling Green corrections of a few facts in what they have told me about those citizenship records, which, as I have said, has had people the world over scratching, and slapping, their heads. As the custodian of my U.S. citizenship, the National Archives at New York City has also been sent a copy of my latest will and copies of some recent manuscripts. But the Archives, too, like every other part of the U.S. government, has entered into no agreement with me about any possible sale of any of my unpublished writing.]

Available on PACER--the online public site for U.S. courts--are documents that may be read for free and printed out at 10c a page. Look for the "Chen vs." cases:

In U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York:

05-cv-3990 (closed)

05-cv-3989 (closed)

05-cv-3819 (closed)

17-cv-1926 (closed)

19-cv-2764 (closed)

22-cv-0223

22-cv-01690

22--cv-2212

22-cv-2938

22-cv-04090

22-cv-5966

In U.S, Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit:

19-2355 (closed)

22-383

22-1218

22-1330

22-1453

22-1671

(It is up to each court’s discretion how long to preserve and make available the documents on its dockets as displayed on PACER, so print out what interests you while you can.)

(An additional note: I don’t know where some American lawyers learned American law, but I know of no way any member of any family can be assumed to have, without agreement, responsibility or rights over any family member’s life or work or property. I have long been unable to get out of New York, but if there has been some plan simply to wait for my death, my latest will does not bequeath my estate—my writings or my body—to anyone in my family or to any New York or American or British institution. They will be grabbed from me “over my dead body.”)