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Arturo Vivante
Arturo Vivante | |
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| Born | (1923-10-17)October 17, 1923 Rome, Italy |
| Died | April 1, 2008(2008-04-01) (aged 84) Wellfleet, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Alma mater | McGill University Sapienza University of Rome |
| Institutions | University of Iowa Bennington College Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of Michigan |
Arturo Vivante (October 17, 1923 in Rome – April 1, 2008 in Wellfleet, Massachusetts) was an Italian American fiction writer.[1]
He was the son of Elena (née de Bosis), a painter, and Leone Vivante, a philosopher. The family fled to England in 1938, anticipating the war and the fascist government's anti-Semitic policies (Leone was Jewish). The British sent Arturo to an internment camp in Canada while his family remained in England for the duration of the war.[2][3] He graduated from McGill University in 1944 and received his medical degree at University of Rome in 1949. He practiced medicine
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Vivante, Arturo 1923–2008
OBITUARY NOTICE—
See index for CA sketch: Born October 17, 1923, in Rome, Italy; died April 1, 2008, in Wellfleet, MA. Physician, educator, translator, short-story writer, novelist, magazine writer, playwright, and poet. Vivante was a master of the short story, but his subject matter was so often and so deeply autobiographical that some readers came to think of his stories as meditations or memoirs in miniature. He built stories around the characters of his philosopher father and artist mother, his childhood in Italy, his brief career as a physician before the muse beckoned and he became a full-time writer. Vivante's Italian childhood was interrupted by World War II, during which time his family moved to England; then Vivante alone was moved by the British to Canada, where he spent a year in confinement as a potential fascist agent. He was eventually released, educated at McGill University in Quebec, and took up a medical practice in Rome, where he met