Arts & Entertainment - Dec. 11, 2006
Cousin's story fuels Salsini's fiction debut
What does it take to turn a life-long journalist and university writing teacher into a first-time novelist? Well, in the case of Paul Salsini, who teaches at Marquette, all it took was a little inspiration to fuel the passion. Salsini's first novel, "The Cielo: A Novel of Wartime Tuscany," is the fruit of conversations he had with a cousin in Italy.
Tags: Salsini, Tuscany, Lucca, Cielo, partigiani, partisans, Allies, Nazis, Stazzema