Louise DeSalvo, memoir
Louise DeSalvo is the Jenny Hunter Endowed Scholar for Creative
Writing and Literature. She has been awarded The President's Award
from Hunter College, the Douglass Society Medal for Distinguished
Achievement, and the Gay Talese Award for her memoir, Vertigo, which was also a finalist for Italy's Primo Acerbi prize for literature.
DeSalvo has published sixteen books; among them are Virginia Woolf's Melymbrosia, the co-edited Vita Sackville-West's Letters to Virginia Woolf, and the co-edited The Milk of Almonds: Italian American Women Writers on Food and Culture. Her
book, Virginia Woolf: The Impact of Childhood Sexual Abuse on
Her Life and Work, was named one of the most important books
of the 20th century by The Women's Review of Books. DeSalvo
has also published the memoirs Vertigo, Breathless, Adultery,
and Crazy in the Kitchen: Food, Feuds and Forgiveness in an Italian
American Family, which was named a Booksense Book of the Year
for 2004. Her book about the writing process, Writing as a Way
of Healing: How Telling Our Stories Transforms Our Lives, is
a widely used resource for writers recovering from trauma, illness,
or terrorist acts. Her latest book is On Moving: A Writer's Meditation on New Houses, Old Haunts, and Finding Home Again.
On Moving: A Writer's Meditation on New Houses, Old Haunts, and Finding Home Again
(Bloomsbury, 2009)
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Crazy in the Kitchen: Food, Feuds and Forgiveness in an Italian American Family
(Bloomsbury, 2005) |
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The Milk of Almonds: Italian American Women Writers on Food and Culture
Editors: Louise DeSalvo and Edvige Giunta
(The Feminist Press at CUNY, 2003) |
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Melymbrosia by Virginia Woolf
Editor: Louise DeSalvo
(Cleis Press, 2002) |
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The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf
Editors: Louise DeSalvo and Mitchell Leaska
(Cleis Press, 2001) |
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Adultery: A Virtuous Look at Why People Cheat
(Houghton Mifflin, 2000) |
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Writing as a Way of Healing: How Telling Our Stories Transforms Our Lives
(Beacon Press, 2000) |
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Vertigo: A Memoir
(Penguin, 1997)
Finalist for Italy's Primo Acerbi Prize |
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Breathless: An Asthma Journal
(Beacon Press, 1997) |
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Conceived with Malice: Literature as Revenge in the Lives of Woolf, Lawrence, Barnes, Miller
(Plume,1994) |
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Virginia Woolf: The Impact of Childhood Sexual Abuse on Her Life and Work
(Ballantine Books, 1990) |
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