About the Author

Jerre Manigione was professor emeritus of English at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of ten books, including The Dream and the Deal: The Federal Writers' Project, 1935-1943 and Mount Allegro: A Memoir of Italian American Life, both reprinted by Syracuse University Press.

Reviews

An Ethnic at Large begins with a boy named Geraldo growing up Sicilian in Rochester, New York, and ends with the author breakfasting with Eleanor Roosevelt in the White House. . . . [The book] is an effective portrait of what it
was like to come of age in the 1930s and 1940s. . . . Finally, the book is a touching revelation of the author himself.-- "New York Times"