Eugene Christy will read selections from his 20th Century Quintet, an historical fiction immigrant story 1899-1972, with discussion to follow.
Eugene Christy is a novelist, first and foremost, but also a poet, a lifelong musician, and a singer/songwriter, currently enjoying retirement in his home in the Berkshires. His maternal grandparents Antonio Scioscia and Giuseppina Fabrizio came from Alta Villa Irpina, near Avellino, in the South of Italy. He has lived in Dublin, London, Rome and Tripoli. He has studied under Seán Ó Faoláin, the famed Irish shorty-story writer, James Dickey, WWII fighter pilot and author of Deliverance, the book and the movie, and Larry McMurtry, widely-acclaimed for the Lonesome Dove series. As singer-songwriter Gene Christy, he was, for many years, the front-man for the Irish folk trio The Dossers, with Bill Morrison and Rick Marquis, and he has recorded his original words and music with backing from Bobby Sweet and Rick Leab. As author Eugene Christy, he has been working for seven years on a quintet of novels, historical fiction telling the saga of an immigrant Italian-American family from 1899 to 1972. Three volumes of The Twentieth Century Quintet have been published this year by Adelaide Books, New York and Lisbon, and Volumes 4 and 5 are due for release in 2021.