Apr 21, 2015
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by Maria Gloria
Dear Readers, An April assortment of Italian connections for you: Pietro Di Donato was born in West Hoboken, New Jersey on April 3, 1911, to Abruzzese emigrants and died at the age of 80. He took up writing during a period in which he was an out-of-work bricklayer.
His first story "Christ in Concrete" published 1937 in Esquire Magazine, dramatized the early death of his father in a construction accident. Within two years, the story grew into a novel of the same name and became the main selection of the "Book of the Month Club", chosen over John Steinbeck's "Grapes of Wrath".
Fonte: L'italo-Americano
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