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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Maria Giusto was born in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York City, known as Little Italy. She is the oldest of four children born to her Sicilian immigrant father and natural born mother. However, because of the "Great Depression", her upbringing was taken over by her maternal grandparents, who were themselves emigrates from Sicily, Italy and who, after a short stay in Little Italy, bought a small piece of farmland in the then small township of Seymour, Connecticut. When she was seven, tragedy struck when her grandmother died suddenly of pneumonia. She, along with her younger brother, were sent back to her parents, who lived in the Project of Red Hook, in New York City. At the age of twelve, she, her two brothers and parents returned to Seymour, Connecticut, where her father started a new working career. At the young age of seventeen, she moved again, this time to live with her new husband's family in Los Angeles, California. There she finished her high school education, then had a daughter and then went on to college where she finished flight school and obtained a B.E. degree in Industrial Engineering. After a short stint working in the drafting department of Douglas Aircraft, she returned to her first passion, the fashion field, as an Industrial Engineer and Technical Designer. Until her retirement, in 1996, she had worked with some of the most prestigious designers and fashion companies of the last century.
Although she has written professional articles and short stories, in various forms, most of her life, THE EMIGRANT, published by 4 Points Press Publishing Company, is her first novella and biographical attempt.
Ms. Giusto currently lives in Los Angeles, California with her husband.
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