Arturo Vivante

Arturo Vivante was born in Rome in 1923 and grew up in Italy, England, and Canada. He earned a medical doctorate from Rome University in 1949, but left his medical practice in the mid-1950s when his short stories began to be published. Seventy of is short stories have appeared in the New Yorker. He has published two novels, five short-story collections, a book of poetry, essays, translations, and plays. Vivante has received many awards, including a Fulbright, an N.E.A., and a Guggenheim Fellowship, and an award from the American Academy. His Solitude and Other Stories (University of Notre Dame Press, 2004) won the Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction. He lives in Cape Cod, Massachusetts.