Salvatore John Giovanni La Puma (February 21, 1929 – May 8, 2008) was an Italian American short story writer.
Life[edit]
He was born and raised in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. In 1951, he was drafted, and served in the Korea War as a medic. In 1959, he moved to Westchester, and worked as an advertising copy editor. In 1967, he moved to Santa Barbara, California.[1][2][3] He married Linda Ferrara in 1955; they had six children; they divorced in 1977; he married Joan Dewberry in 1980; they divorced in 2000.[4][5]
His work appeared in Antioch Review, Kenyon Review.[6] and Zyzzyva.[7] He died in Santa Barbara on May 8, 2008.
Awards[edit]
- 1987 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
- 1988 O. Henry Award finalist [8]
- 1988 American Book Award
Works[edit]
- The boys of Bensonhurst: stories. University of Georgia Press. 1987. ISBN 978-0-8203-0891-3.
- A Time for Wedding Cake Norton. Random House. 1991. ISBN 978-0-517-12513-7.
- Teaching Angels to Fly. W W Norton & Co Inc. June 1992. ISBN 978-0-393-03358-8.
Anthologies[edit]
- Carol Bonomo Albright; Joanna Clapps Herman, eds. (2008). "A Marvelous Feat in a Common Place". Wild Dreams: The Best of Italian Americana. Fordham University Press. p. 251. ISBN 978-0-8232-2910-9.
- Charles East, ed. (1993). "Mouthpiece". The Flannery O'Connor Award: Selected Stories. University of Georgia Press. p. 124. ISBN 978-0-8203-1524-9.
- Regina Barreca, ed. (2002). Don't tell mama!: the Penguin book of Italian American writing. Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0-14-200247-6.
References[edit]
- ^ Emmanuel Sampath Nelson, ed. (2005). The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature: I - M. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-313-33062-9.
- ^ Fred L. Gardaphé (1996). Dagoes read: tradition and the Italian/American writer. Guernica Editions. p. 113. ISBN 978-1-55071-031-1.
Salvatore La Puma.
- ^ Poets & Writers
- ^ Salvatore John LaGumina, ed. (2000). The Italian American experience: an encyclopedia. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-0-8153-0713-6.
- ^ http://www.newspress.com/Top/Article/article.jsp?Section=KZSB&ID=565301388691767311&Archive=true [dead link]
- ^ "Inside the Fire", Kenyon Review, 1989
- ^ ""Photograph", "Lightning", "The Four Of Us", "Paradise", Zyzzyva, Spring '85 - Winter '08 (Issue Nos. 1 - 84)". Archived from the original on 2010-01-03. Retrieved 2009-10-29.
- ^ "The PEN / O. Henry Awards Stories"
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