Arturo Vivante

Arturo Vivante (born October 17, 1923 Rome - April 1, 2008) was an Italian American writer.^[1]

He was the son of Leone (philosopher) and Elena DeBosis Vivante (painter). In 1938, the family moved to England. The British sent him into internment in Canada while his family remained in England.^[2][3] He graduated from McGill University, and University of Rome in 1949. He practiced medicine in Rome until 1958.^[4] He married Nancy Adair Bradish (died 2002) in 1958,^[5] and moved to New York.^[6] He appeared at the 1982 University of North Dakota Writers Conference.

From 1968 to 1993, he taught writing at colleges, including the University of Iowa, Bennington College, and MIT.^[7] He retired and lived in Wellfleet, Massachusetts.^[8]

His work has appeared in AGNI,^[9] Vogue, The New York Times, London Magazine, The Guardian, The Southern Review, and the New Yorker.^[10]

Awards

• 1976 Italian Communication Award
• 1979 National Endowment for the Arts grant
• 2006 Katherine Anne Porter Award for fiction
• 2004 Richard Sullivan Prize for short fiction

Works

• A Goodly Babe (novel) Little, Brown: 1966.
• The French Girls of Killmi (short stories) Little Brown; 1967.
• Doctor Giovanni (novel) Little, Brown; 1969.
• English Stories Street Fiction, 1975.
• Run to the Waterfall (short stories) Scribner: 1979.
• Writing Fiction Writing. Inc.: 1980.
• The Tales of Arturo Vivante, selected and with an introduction by Mary Kinzie, The Sheep Meadow Press; 1990.

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