Salvatore La Puma

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Name Salvatore Puma		Role Short story writer
Died May 8, 2008, Santa Barbara, California, United States Books The Boys of Bensonhurst, A Time for Wedding Cake, Teaching Angels to Fly: Stories Awards American Book Awards, Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction

Salvatore John Giovanni La Puma (February 21, 1929 – May 8, 2008) was an Italian American short story writer.

Life

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. He married Linda Ferrara in 1955; they had six children; they divorced in 1977; he married Joan Dewberry in 1980; they divorced in 2000.

His work appeared in Antioch Review, Kenyon Review. and Zyzzyva. He died in Santa Barbara on May 8, 2008.

Awards

1987 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction

1988 O. Henry Award finalist

1988 American Book Award

Works

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

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. ISBN 978-0-8232-2910-9. CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)

Charles East, ed. (1993). "Mouthpiece". The Flannery O'Connor Award: Selected Stories. University of Georgia Press. 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

Salvatore La Puma Wikipedia

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Life

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