Louise Desalvo (1942–2018)
Autor(a) de Writing as a Way of Healing: How Telling Our Stories Transforms Our Lives
About the Author
Louise A. DeSalvo was born Louise Anita Sciacchetano in Jersey City, New Jersey on September 27, 1942. She received a bachelor's degree in English from Douglass College in 1963. She taught at Wood-Ridge High School for four years before receiving a master's degree in English in 1972 and a Ph.D. in mostrar mais English in 1977 from New York University. She taught at Fairleigh Dickinson University from 1977 to 1982 before becoming a professor of English and creative writing at Hunter College. She was an authority on Virginia Woolf and a memoirist on Italian-American culture. She wrote and edited numerous books including Virginia Woolf: The Impact of Childhood Sexual Abuse on Her Life and Work; Between Women: Biographers, Novelists, Critics, Teachers and Artists Write About Their Work on Women; Territories of the Voice: Short Stories by Irish Women; The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf; The Milk of Almonds: Italian American Women Writers on Food and Culture; Writing as a Way of Healing; and The Art of Slow Writing. She wrote several memoirs including Crazy in the Kitchen, Chasing Ghosts, The House of Early Sorrows, and Vertigo, which won the Gay Talese Award. Her novel, Casting Off, was published in 1987. She died from metastatic breast cancer on October 31, 2018 at the age of 76. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Obras de Louise Desalvo
Between Women: Biographers, Novelists, Critics, Teachers and Artists Write about Their Work on Women (1984) — Editor — 67 cópias
Conceived with Malice: Literature as Revenge in the Lives of Woolf, Lawrence, Barnes, Miller (1994) 46 cópias
Chasing Ghosts: A Memoir of a Father, Gone to War (World War II: The Global, Human, and Ethical Dimension (FUP)) (2015) 8 cópias
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Associated Works
Here Lies My Heart: Essays on Why We Marry, Why We Don't, and What We Find There (A Beacon Anthology) (1999) — Contribuinte — 62 cópias
True Stories, Well Told: From the First 20 Years of Creative Nonfiction Magazine (2014) — Contribuinte — 51 cópias
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Conhecimento Comum
- Outros nomes
- Sciacchetano, Louise Anita (birth name)
- Data de nascimento
- 1942-09-27
- Data de falecimento
- 2018-10-31
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
- Local de falecimento
- Montclair, New Jersey, USA
- Locais de residência
- Hoboken, New Jersey, USA
Ridgefield, New Jersey, USA - Educação
- New York University (MA - English, PhD - English)
Rutgers University (BA - English) - Ocupação
- literary scholar
memoirist
biographer
food writer
professor (Writing and Literature)
essayist - Organizações
- City University of New York (Hunter College)
Fairleigh Dickinson University
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- 20
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- 1,049
- Popularidade
- #24,563
- Avaliação
- 4.0
- Resenhas
- 10
- ISBNs
- 59
- Idiomas
- 5
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