About
Born in Brooklyn, New York; Educated at Columbia University. In-house & freelance editor for a long time.: McGraw-Hill, Bantam Books, Popular Library. Proofreader, Copy editor then Acquisition Editor. Bagan publishing in the Paris Review late 1970s. Books include:
RECENT: SEMMELWEIS, the Women's Doctor
TONI CADE BAMBARA'S ONE SICILIAN NIGHT, a memoir--new edition with essay, WATER FOR TONI MORRISON
The Mediterranean Runs Through Brooklyn
Valentino & the Great Italians
Conversation with Johnny, a novel
BART: A Life of A. Bartlett Giamatti
Toni Cade Bambara's One Sicilian Night
The Little Sailor
John Dante's Inferno, a Playboy's Life
Dante in Love
IMMIGRANTS according to Anthony Valerio
taught creative writing at NYU, CUNY, Wesleyan University
Member: Authors Guild
Featured Work
SEMMELWEIS, the Women's Doctor
Here, in Semmelweiss, Valerio delivers into the light of our regard and sympathy a man who is more suited, in a sort of poetic justice, to be delivered from the womb of the shadows than any other--a man who devoted his life -- indeed, sacrificed it to the contumely of his petty and vain detractors, always the unjust punishment of gentle genius-- to delivering women who were delivering babies, and then dying along with their babies -- delivering them, with all his might and soul, from what we now recognize as puerperal fever -- childbed fever. --
Eric Goldman, professor, University of Connecticut
Other Works
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TONI CADE BAMBARA'S ONE SICILIAN NIGHT, a memoir
2020
