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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.

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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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