Anthony ManciniAnthony Mancini, former director of the journalism program of the English Department of Brooklyn College for twenty-five years, is the author of seven novels many of which have been reprinted in international editions in Japan, Finland, Romania, Spai, France, Germany and Holland.Mancini spent his early career as an award-winning reporter and editor for 20 years at the New York Post, covering a wide range of subjects, from crime to politics to the arts.He contributed articles to many national and local newspapers and magazines, including the New York Times, Washington Post, New York magazine, Cosmopolitan, Travel & Leisure, Self, Penthouse, Gentlemen's Quarterly, New York Daily News.A native New Yorker, Mancini was born an identical twin to Italian immigrants. His father was a carpenter, mother a housewife. He worked his way through high school and college as a delivery boy, golf caddy, bus boy, dishwasher, short-order cook and in many other odd jobs.Mancini's first novel, Minnie Santangelo's Mortal Sin, was a Reader's Digest condensed book selection. Another novel, Talons, was a Literary Guild selection. He also has published: Minnie Santangelo & the Evil Eye; The Miracle of Pelham Bay Park; Menage; The Yellow Gardenia and Godmother.Tolmitch is proud to offer Mancini's latest novel, Ashes, the story of a retired Jesuit priest who sojourns in volcanic Taormina in 1949 where he confronts the ghosts of his past and the shades of his foreshortened future.Professional Societies: Society of the Silurians, Authors Guild, Authors League of America, Professional Staff Congress.Awards: 2017 Peter Khiss Award for Excellence in Journalism given by the Society of the Silurians; 1976 First Prize in Feature Writing by the Uniformed Firefighters Association. Read More Read Less