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First Draft: Christopher Castellani Two

Michael Joseph

Christopher Castellani is the son of Italian immigrants and a native of Wilmington, Delaware. He currently lives in Boston, where he is the artistic director of Grub Street, the country’s largest and leading independent creative writing center. He is the author of the novels: A Kiss from Maddalena, The Saint of Lost Things, All This Talk of Love, and Leading Men.  He is also the author of The Art of Perspective: Who Tells the Story, a collection of essays on point of view in fiction.

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