Salvatore La Puma Explained

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.^{[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

• 1987 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
• 1988 O. Henry Award finalist ^[8]
• 1988 American Book Award

Works

• Book: The boys of Bensonhurst: stories. University of Georgia Press. 1987. 978-0-8203-0891-3.
• Book: A Time for Wedding Cake Norton . 1991. Random House . 978-0-517-12513-7 .
• Book: Teaching Angels to Fly . W W Norton & Co Inc . June 1992 . 978-0-393-03358-8 .

Anthologies

• Book: Wild Dreams: The Best of Italian Americana . registration. 251 . A Marvelous Feat in a Common Place. Carol Bonomo Albright . Carol Bonomo Albright . Joanna Clapps Herman . Joanna Clapps Herman . Fordham University Press. 2008. 978-0-8232-2910-9 .
• Book: The Flannery O'Connor Award: Selected Stories. registration. 124 . Mouthpiece . Charles East. University of Georgia Press. 1993. 978-0-8203-1524-9 .
• Book: Don't tell mama!: the Penguin book of Italian American writing. Regina Barreca. Penguin Books. 2002. 978-0-14-200247-6.

Notes and References

1. Book: The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature: I - M. Emmanuel Sampath Nelson. Greenwood Publishing Group. 2005. 978-0-313-33062-9 .
2. Book: Dagoes read: tradition and the Italian/American writer. registration. 113. Salvatore La Puma.. Fred L. Gardaphé. Guernica Editions. 1996. 978-1-55071-031-1 .
3. http://www.pw.org/content/salvatore_la_puma_1 Poets & Writers
4. Book: The Italian American experience: an encyclopedia. Salvatore John LaGumina. Taylor & Francis. 2000. 978-0-8153-0713-6 .
5. http://www.newspress.com/Top/Article/article.jsp?Section=KZSB&ID=565301388691767311&Archive=true
6. https://www.jstor.org/pss/4336129 "Inside the Fire", Kenyon Review, 1989
7. Web site: "Photograph", "Lightning", "The Four Of Us", "Paradise", Zyzzyva, Spring '85 - Winter '08 (Issue Nos. 1 - 84) . 2009-10-29 . 2010-01-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100103031254/http://www.zyzzyva.org/published.fiction.htm . dead .
8. http://www.randomhouse.com/anchor/ohenry/winners/past.html "The PEN / O. Henry Awards Stories"