Tony Ardizzone

Anthony V. (Tony) Ardizzone (born 1949, Chicago) is an American novelist, short story writer, and editor.

Biography

Ardizzone was raised on the North Side of Chicago. He graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, in 1971 and from Bowling Green State University with an MFA in 1975. He was arrested after a peaceful, nonviolent anti-war protest. In 1973 he also did a year of study at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

He taught at Saint Mary's Center for Learning (Chicago), Bowling Green State University, Old Dominion University, and Vermont College of Norwich University. In 1985, he taught at Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco. His work appeared in Ploughshares.

He served on the Board of Directors of the Association of Writers & Writing Programs.

Currently, Ardizzone is a Chancellor's Professor in the MFA program at Indiana University, and lives in Bloomington, Indiana.

Awards

• 1986 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction for The Evening News
• 1992 Milkweed National Fiction Prize for Larabi's Ox: Stories of Morocco.
• 1992 Chicago Foundation for Literature Award for Fiction for Larabi's Ox: Stories of Morocco.
• 1986 Virginia Prize for Fiction, for Heart of the Order
• Lawrence Foundation Award
• Bruno Arcudi Literature Prize
• Prairie Schooner Readers' Choice Award
• Black Warrior Review Literary Award in Fiction
• Cream City Review Editors' Award in Nonfiction
• National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship

Novels

• The Whale Chaser (Academy Chicago Publishers, 2010) ISBN 978-0897336109
• In the Garden of Papa Santuzzu (Picador USA/St. Martin's Press, 1999) ISBN 9780312263416 (trade paperback edition 2000 MacMillan)
• Heart of the Order (Henry Holt and Company, 1986) ISBN 9780030085031
• In the Name of the Father (novel) (Doubleday & Company, 1978) ISBN 9780385140805

Short story collections

• Taking it Home: Stories from the Neighborhood (The University of Illinois Press, 1996) ISBN 9780252064838
• Larabi's Ox: Stories of Morocco (Milkweed Editions, 1992) ISBN 9780915943722
• The Evening News (stories) (University of Georgia Press, 1986) ISBN 9780820308609
• "Cavaduzzo’s of Cicero", AGNI, 1999

Anthologies

• "Lamb Soup". Wild Dreams: The Best of Italian Americana. Fordham University Press. 2008. ISBN 9780823229109. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |editors= ignored (|editor= suggested) (help)
• Bill Tonelli, ed. (2005). "Cavadduzzo's of Cicero". The Italian American Reader. HarperCollins. ISBN 9780060006679.
• Hilda Raz, ed. (2001). "Larabi's Ox". Best of Prairie schooner: fiction and poetry. University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 9780803289727.
• Bill Henderson, ed. (1992). The Pushcart Prize, XVI: Best of the Small Presses. Simon & Shuster. ISBN 9780671734350.

Editor

• The Habit of Art: Best Stories from the Indiana University Fiction Workshop. Indiana University Press. 2005. ISBN 9780253218070.
• Intro 12 (anthology of fiction and poetry). Norfolk: The Associated Writing Programs. 1981. ISBN 9780936266022.
• Intro 11 (anthology of fiction and poetry). Norfolk: Associated Writing Programs, 1980.
• Intro 10 (anthology of fiction and poetry). New York: Hendel & Reinke. 1979. ISBN 9780918656056.

External links

• "Tony Ardizzone", Indiana University
• Fred L. Gardaphé (2006). "Fresh Garbage: The Gangster as Trickster - David Chase and Tony Ardizzone". From wiseguys to wise men: the gangster and Italian American masculinities. CRC Press. ISBN 9780415946483.