Anthony Valerio

Background

Anthony Valerio was born on March 13, 1940 in New York City, New York, United States; the son of William and Gertrude Valerio.

Education

Anthony Valerio received a Bachelor of Arts from Columbia University in 1962.

Career

Anthony Valerio worked as an editor at major publishing companies and as a writing instructor. He has written several books on Italian subjects. His works include The Mediterranean Runs Through Brooklyn (1982), Valentino and the Great Italians (1986), the 1991 compilation Bart: A Life of A. Bartlett Giamatti by Him and about Him, and others.

The Mediterranean Runs Through Brooklyn is a volume of fictional sketches, with each sketch built around a member of the narrator's New York Italian family - for instance, his mother, father, sister, aunts, and uncles.

Valerio's next book, Valentino and the Great Italians, as the title implies, contains essays about famous people of Italian origin, including early film actor Rudolph Valentino. Other men and women discussed in the volume include opera singer Mario Lanza, explorer Christopher Columbus, baseball player Joe DiMaggio, revolutionary Giuseppe Garibaldi, automobile executive Lee Iacocca, and politician Mario Cuomo. Valerio also includes an essay about the woman who inspired Italian Renaissance painter and inventor Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa.

Valerio compiled the writings of the late major league baseball commissioner and former Yale University president A. Bartlett Giamatti, along with contributions from friends and acquaintances, in Bart: A Life of A. Bartlett Giamatti. The volume includes many photographs, most of them from Giamatti's involvement with baseball.

Valerio's latest work Semmelweis: the Women's Doctor was published in 2019.

During his lifetime, Anthony Valerio taught at New York University, the City University of New York, and Wesleyan University. He lectures widely in the United States and Europe and has been a fiction judge at PEN and the Authors Guild.

Achievements

• Anthony Valerio is a notable author. His bestselling book Bart: A Life of A. Bartlett Giamatti was praised by numerous critics. Anthony has also been listed as a notable writer by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • John Dante's Inferno: a Playboy's Life

    (The life of one of the Great Lovers of all time, John Dan...)

    2012
  • Anita Garibaldi: A Biography

    (This book is the first complete and accurate biography of...)

    2000
  • Semmelweis: the Women's Doctor

    (The Life and Work of pioneering physician Ignaz P. Semmel...)

    2019
  • Conversation with Johnny: A Novel of Power and Sex 1997
  • Bart: A Life of A. Bartlett Giamatti by Him and about Him 1991
  • Toni Cade Bambara's One Sicilian Night 2007
  • Immigrants: According to Anthony Valerio 2017
  • The Mediterranean Runs Through Brooklyn 1982
  • The Little Sailor 2008

Views

Quotations: "Thank you for making me sound momentarily respectable."

Membership

Anthony Valerio is a member of the Authors Guild.

Personality

Quotes from others about the person

• Shel Silverstein: "He knows his craft. He knows his characters. He gets in, tells his story and gets out. It's what good writing should be."

Connections

Anthony Valerio married Ellen Nerenberg on March 14, 2000. They have three children - William, Gianna and Francesca.

Father:

William Valerio

Mother:

Gertrude Valerio

Spouse:

Ellen Nerenberg

child:

Gianna Valerio

child:

Francesca Valerio

child:

William Valerio