Nicholas Rinaldi

Nicholas Rinaldi (1934 – May 27, 2020) was an American poet and novelist.

Biography[]

Rinaldi was the author of four novels and three collections of poetry. His poems and fiction won numerous awards, and he was honored as the 2007 Artist of the Year by the Fairfield Arts Council.^[3]

Rinaldi earned a doctorate from Fordham University and taught courses in literature and creative writing at Fairfield University in Fairfield, Connecticut. He lived in Bridgeport, Connecticut with his wife Jackie, a literary critic. Rinaldi had four children.^[4] He died from the coronavirus ( 2019).

Bibliography[]

Poetry collections[]

• The Resurrection of the Snails (1977, J F Blair, ISBN 0-89587-002-9)
• We Have Lost Our Fathers (1982, University Press of Florida, ISBN 0-8130-0692-9)
• The Luftwaffe in Chaos (1985 Negative Capability Press, ISBN 0-942544-04-8)

Novels[]

• Bridge Fall Down (1985) — (St Martin's Press, ISBN 0-312-09550-3)
• The Jukebox Queen of Malta (1999) — (Bantam, ISBN 0-593-04420-7)
• Between Two Rivers (2004) — (HarperCollins, ISBN 0-06-057876-9)
• The Remarkable Courtship of General Tom Thumb (2015) - (Scribner, ISBN 1476727325)

References[]

External links[]

• Fairfield University Profile
• www.nicholasrinaldi.net Author's website
• NPR's Jon Kalish interview with Nicholas Rinaldi

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