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Joanna Clapps Herman is an Italian American writer, editor and poet. She is the author of three books of prose, editor of two anthologies, and her essays and writing have been published in many anthologies and literary journals, including Creative Nonfiction, [1] Inkwell [2] and The Massachusetts Review. [1]
Her first novel, Infertility Rites, was published by Guernica Editions in 1991; it was later translated into French and Italian. In 1994 Doubleday Canada published her children's fantasy book: Ubu, the Witch Who Would be Rich. Also a playwright, Mary Melfi's works for the theater have been workshopped in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver.
Catherine Scorsese. Catherine Scorsese (née Cappa; [1] April 16, 1912 – January 6, 1997) was an American actress. She began acting when her son Martin Scorsese cast her in his short film It's Not Just You, Murray!. Scorsese was of Italian descent and frequently played the role of an Italian mother. She is perhaps most well known for her ...
Helen Frances Barolini (née Mollica; November 18, 1925 – March 29, 2023) was an American writer, editor, and translator. As a second-generation Italian American, Barolini often wrote on issues of Italian-American identity. [note 1] Among her notable works are Umbertina (1979), a novel which tells the story of four generations of women in one ...
Appearance. hide. Marion Benasutti in 1985. Marion Benasutti (née Gosette; 1908–1992) was an American writer. The daughter of immigrants from Northern Italy, she was born in Brandy Camp, Pennsylvania, and grew up in Philadelphia. She learned English in school as a child, and never finished high school, yet enjoyed a successful writing career.
Ph.D., American literature. Alma mater. University of Wisconsin. Mary Jo Bona is an American literary scholar who has written extensively on Italian-American literature and its history. She is professor of Italian American Studies and chair of the Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Stony Brook University. [1]
Her third novel, Living Room, was named one of the best LGBT books of 2011 by publisher Carol Seajay of the Feminist Press. Azpadu's unique contribution to Italian-American literature has been noted by leading scholars in the field. Works. Saturday Night in the Prime of Life (1983) Goat Song (1984) Rumi's Falcon (2005)
The Dream Book: An Anthology of Writings by Italian American Women. Syracuse University Press. ISBN 9780815606628. Bona, Mary Jo (1999). Claiming a Tradition: Italian American Women Writers. SIU Press. ISBN 9780809322589. Bona, Mary Jo, ed. (2007). The Voices We Carry: Recent Italian American Women's Fiction. UTP Distribution. ISBN 9781550710991.