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Joseph Di Prisco
AuthorBooks · Second handSince 1950
Joseph Di Prisco is an Italian-American poet, novelist, memoirist, book reviewer, and teacher. He has published four novels, three books of poetry, two books on childhood and adolescence co-written with psychologist and educator Michael Riera, and two memoirs. His book reviews, essays, and poems have appeared in numerous journals and newspapers, and his poetry has been awarded prizes from Poetry Northwest, Bear Star Press, and Bread Loaf. In 2017, Di Prisco was named Chairman of the Simpson Family Literary Project, a non-profit organization that sponsors literary outreach in the Bay Area and the bestowal of an annual $50,000 prize to "an author of fiction at the relatively middle stage of a burgeoning career."
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About Joseph Di Prisco
Birth
1950
Joseph Di Prisco is an Italian-American poet, novelist, memoirist, book reviewer, and teacher. He has published four novels, three books of poetry, two books on childhood and adolescence co-written with psychologist and educator Michael Riera, and two memoirs. His book reviews, essays, and poems have appeared in numerous journals and newspapers, and his poetry has been awarded prizes from Poetry Northwest, Bear Star Press, and Bread Loaf. In 2017, Di Prisco was named Chairman of the Simpson Family Literary Project, a non-profit organization that sponsors literary outreach in the Bay Area and the bestowal of an annual $50,000 prize to "an author of fiction at the relatively middle stage of a burgeoning career."
Joseph Di Prisco was born in 1950 in the neighborhood of Greenpoint.
His versatile career spans both poetry and fiction writing.
He is the author of sixteen works published throughout his career.
His bibliography includes a notable literary exploration of the city of San Francisco.
Among his most prominent works is the sixth volume of the Simpsonistas series.
