Author of Ten books thus far, fiction and non-fiction, beginning in the late 1970's with the Short Story "The Skyjacker" in The Paris Review and continuing to the recently completed Semmelweis, the Women's Doctor. Feels like just the other day.— A.V. - 03/2019. Titles in ascending order: The Mediterranean Runs Through Brooklyn Valentino & the Great Italians BART: a Life of A. Bartlett Giamatti Anita Garibaldi, a Biography Conversation with Johnny, a novel Toni Cade Bambara's One Sicilian Night, a memoir The Little Sailor, a Romantic Thriller John Dante's Inferno, a Playboy's Life IMMIGRANTS according to Anthony Valerio, Volumes 1 & 2 Semmelweis, the Women's Doctor