biography
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1911–92)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in West Hoboken, New Jersey, USA. His father was killed on a construction site when he was 11, but he became a bricklayer. By 1937 he had turned to writing, and his semi-autobiographical novel, Christ in Concrete (1939), brought him instant fame. He continued to write fiction, mostly naturalistic portrayals of the hard lives of Italian working-class immigrants in the USA, such as Three Circles of Light (1960) and The Penitent (1962), but his later work never gained the attention of Christ in Concrete. |
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