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Alexander Stille (2010)

Alexander Stille (born 1957 in New York City ) is an American journalist and writer.

Life

Alexander Stille is a son of the Italian journalist Ugo Stille (1919–1995), whose parents had to emigrate with him to the USA in 1941 because of the Italian race laws . After the war, Ugo Stille became the New York correspondent for the Italian daily Corriere della Sera and was its editor in Milan from 1987 to 1992 . Alexander Stille's mother was from the Midwest and was the daughter of a Chicago legal scholar; she met Ugo in 1948 at a party at Truman Capote's ; the marriage was a forty year disaster.

Alexander Stille taught himself Italian. He attended a school in Italy from 1980 to 1982, studied at Yale University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism . From 1990 to 1993 he worked in Milan as a correspondent for American newspapers, but returned to New York. Stille writes primarily about Italian politics for newspapers and magazines such as The Boston Globe , The New York Review of Books , The New York Times and The New Yorker ; He became known for his articles about the Mafia in Italy.

In his first book he wrote (Italian edition, a translation, published by Mondadori in Milan in 1991) about the survival of five Jewish families in Fascist Italy, but not about the father's family, as the latter did not speak on the subject. The book was selected by the Times Literary Supplement as one of the books of 1992, it received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Italian translation in 1992 the Premio Acqui . This was followed by Excellent Cadavers research on the Mafia, which became the basis for a screenplay in 2009, and a book about Silvio Berlusconi . In 2003, Stille married the poet Lexi Rudnitsky, who, however, died in 2005. There is a child from the marriage. Stille then tackled the book About His Opposing Parents in 2006, which appeared in 2013 under the title The Force of Things: A Marriage in War and Peace .

Stille teaches journalism at Columbia University , he was a 2008 Guggenheim Fellow .

Fonts (selection)

  • Benevolence and Betrayal: Five Italian Jewish Families Under Fascism . New York: Picador 1992.
    • Uno su mille: cinque famiglie ebraiche durante il fascismo . Milan: Mondadori 1991. ISBN 88-04-34012-6
  • Excellent cadavers: The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic . 1995
    • The judges: death, the mafia and the Italian republic . Translation Karl-Heinz Silber. Munich: Beck 1997. ISBN 978-3-406-42303-1
  • The future of the past . New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2002. ISBN 9780374159771
    • Travel to the end of the story . Essays. Translation Karl-Heinz Silber. Munich: Beck 2002. ISBN 978-3-406-49516-8
  • The Double Bind of Italian Jews. Acceptance and Assimilation . In: Joshua D. Zimmerman (Ed.): Jews in Italy under Fascist and Nazi Rule . Cambridge: Cambridge Press / NY, 2005, pp. 19-34. The book contains a short biography on p. XVII.
  • Romano Mussolini : My father, il Duce: a memoir by Mussolini's son . Translation to English. Introduction by Alexander Stille. San Diego: Kales Press 2006.
  • The sack of Rome: How a Beautiful European Country with a Fabled History and a Storied Culture Was Taken Over by a Man Named Silvio Berlusconi . New York: Penguin Books 2006.
  • The Force of Things: A Marriage in War and Peace . 2013

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lexi Rudnitsky , Parte
personal data
SURNAME Silence, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City