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- George Michael Cuomo
- American novelist George Cuomo was born George Michael Cuomo in the Bronx, NY, in 1929. His father was a machinist and his mother was a cleaning woman. He graduated from Stuyvesant High School in New York City and attended Tufts University, where he received a B.A. in English. He later got his masters degree from Indiana University. He worked at a succession of jobs, including newspaper copy editor, advertising and public relations writer and even had a stint in the corporate world, as assistant to a corporate vice president. He began his teaching career at such institutions as the University of Arizona, Victoria University in British Columbia, Canada, and California State College at Hayward before finally settling in at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where he taught writing for 20 years.
Novelist Richard Yates ("Revolutionary Road") helped to launch Cuomo's writing career in 1963 by including one of his short stories, "A Part of the Bargain", in Yates' anthology "Stories for the Sixties". Cuomo followed that with several novels, including "Jack Be Nimble" (1963), "Bright Day, Dark Runner" (1964) and "Among Thieves" (1968), and an assortment of short stories. poems and articles, which were published in such publications as "Saturday Review", "The Nation" and "The Saturday Evening Post".
He died on October 26, 2015, in Cambridge, MA, of degenerative bone disease.- IMDb Mini Biography By: frankfob2@yahoo.com
- SpousesJune Spackman(1996 - October 26, 2015) (his death, 1 child)Sylvia Epstein(August 15, 1954 - ?) (5 children)
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