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Nicholas M. Rinaldi (April 2, 1934 – May 27, 2020) was an American poet and novelist.

Life

Rinaldi earned a doctorate from Fordham University. He 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.

He 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. He died from complications of COVID-19 on May 27, 2020, aged 86, amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Connecticut.

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

1. Library of Congress online
2. "Fairfield Art Council names Fairfield professor Artist of the Year - News". Archived from the original on 2007-10-10. Retrieved 2007-12-21.
3. "Sobel Weber Associates, Inc. - Featured Books". Archived from the original on 2012-02-09. Retrieved 2007-12-21.
4. Roberts, Sam (2020-06-11). "Nicholas Rinaldi, Writer of Character-Rich Novels, Dies at 86". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-06-11.
5. "Nicholas M. Rinaldi". Legacy.com. Retrieved 2021-12-12.

External links

• Fairfield University Profile Archived 2013-01-09 at the Wayback Machine
• www.nicholasrinaldi.net Author's website
• NPR's Jon Kalish interview with Nicholas Rinaldi

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