John LauricellaJohn Lauricella was born in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up in Scotch Plains, New Jersey, where he attended the public schools. He studied fiction-writing with Frederick Busch at Colgate University, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and graduated magna um laude. Later, he earned an M.F.A. in creative writing and a Ph.D. in English at Cornell University. He is the author of -Home Games: Essays on Baseball Fiction- (McFarland & Company, 1999), and has published fiction in -Arts & Letters: Journal of Contemporary Culture,- and in -Stone Canoe: A Journal of Arts, Literature, and Social Commentary.- His novel, -Hunting Old Sammie,- was published in April 2013 by Irving Place Editions; a year later, the same imprint published Lauricella's -2094,- a literary/science-fiction crossover that more than one reader has described as -a futuristic speculative dystopian problem-novel.- His third novel, -The Pornographer's Apprentice,- was published in 2015. He writes these quixotic fictions in a small room under the eaves of the old bungalow he shares with his wife and children in Ithaca, New York, where they have lived since 2001. Read More Read Less