Marino D'Orazio

Marino D’Orazio (a close lifelong friend of the author) was also born in Sepino, Italy and emigrated with his family to the US at the age of eleven. He holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the CUNY Graduate Center; has been a college professor of both English and Italian, and has translated fiction and nonfiction books from the Italian. He has also had a long career as an attorney, from which he now deems himself ‘semi-retired’. He has three grown children, six grandchildren, and lives with his wife in Saratoga Springs, NY.