Joseph Papaleo (1925–2004) was an Italian American novelist, and academic.

Life

He grew up in The Bronx. He graduated from

Sarah Lawrence College Sarah Lawrence College is a Private university, private liberal arts college in Yonkers, New York. The college models its approach to education after the Supervision system, Oxford/Cambridge system of one-on-one student-faculty tutorials. Sara ...

, from Columbia University with an M.A., and from the University of Florence with a Ph.D. He taught at

. He lived in

Bronxville, New York Bronxville is a village in Westchester County, New York, United States, located approximately north of Midtown Manhattan. It is part of the town of Eastchester. The village comprises one square mile (2.5 km2) of land in its entirety, a ...

, and Oldsmar, Florida. His work appeared in ''Harper's'', ''The New Yorker'', ''Paris Review'', ''Paterson Literary Review''.

Awards

* 2003 American Book Award * 1973

Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...

Works

* * ''Unsettling America'' (Viking/Penguin, 1994) * ''Picasso at Ninety One'' (Seaport Books, 1988) * * ''All the Comforts'', Little, Brown, 1967 * ''Out of Place'' 1970

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Papaleo, Joseph 1925 births 2004 deaths People from Bronxville, New York American writers of Italian descent Sarah Lawrence College alumni Sarah Lawrence College faculty Columbia University alumni University of Florence alumni People from Oldsmar, Florida American Book Award winners