The Life of a Writer in the United States - Roland Merullo

Come meet author Roland Merullo on Wednesday, April 28, and hear him speak about the life of an American author. Roland Merullo was born and raised in Revere, Massachusetts and graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy and Brown University. He has been a Peace Corps volunteer in Micronesia, worked for the U.S. Government in the former Soviet Union, driven a cab in Boston, worked as a carpenter for seven years, and taught for ten years at Bennington and Amherst Colleges as well as the Mass. College of Liberal Arts and Berkshire Community College. He has published nine novels and three books of non-fiction. His memoir, Revere Beach Elegy, won the Massachusetts Book Award in Non-Fiction, and his novel, American Savior, was an Honor Book for the Massachusetts Book Award in Fiction. It was also one of Bookmarks Magazine's Best Books of 2009. Revere Beach Boulevard was a finalist for the L.L.Winship/PEN New England Prize, and In Revere, In Those Days won the Maria Thomas Fiction Award in 2003 for best novel by a former Peace Corps Volunteer and was a Booklist Editor's Choice. His first book, Leaving Losapas, was a B.Dalton Discovery Series choice, and has been optioned for film by John Turturro. Revere Beach Boulevard is under option with the actor Tony Musante. He has been writer-in-residence at North Shore Community College and Miami Dade Colleges, and spoken at many other colleges and universities.