James Vescovi was a writer/editor for 25 years before changing careers and becoming a teacher. Some of his favorites books/authors are Crime & Punishment (Dostoyevsky), The First Man (Camus), The New Man (Merton), The Assault (Mulisch), Bridge over the Drina (Andric), Macbeth (we all know who), Death Comes for the Archbishop (Cather), The Ocean (Hanley), and British poet David Jones masterpiece about WWI, In Parenthesis. PAST ARTICLES FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES http://www.nytimes.com/1997/10/26/nyregion/the-piecing-of-her-past.html http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C05E4D71F3DF930A35752C0A9669D8B63 http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/05/nyregion/thecity/05labo.html?_r=0 PREVIOUS BOOK http://www.amazon.com/USS-Essex-Birth-American-Navy/dp/1593371926/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=1-1&qid=1403215772

James Vescovi’s stories about his eccentric grandparents have appeared singly in The New York Times, Alimentum Journal: The Literature of Food, Creative Nonfiction, Newsday, Gazetta Italiana, and various anthologies. He is also author of The USS Essex and the Birth of the American Navy (Adams; 1999; 13,000 copies sold). His fiction and essays been published in Midwestern Gothic, The New York Observer, the Georgetown Review, and Natural Bridge. He teaches at high school English and lives in New York with his wife and three children.