Helen Barolini

Biography

The author of seven books and many short stories and essays that have appeared in literary publications as well as in anthologies and the annual series “The Best American Essays,” Helen Barolini’s work has been noted for the intercultural ties between her American homeland and the ancestral Italy where she lived for many years. Her first novel was written when she was the recipient of a creative writing grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. That was followed by “The Dream Book” for which she received an American Book Award. She has received other honors and has been a fellow of the Bellagio Center at Lake Como in Italy. All her books are in print and forthcoming for Spring 2004 is a poetry collection, “Rome Burning.” Photos and full information available on website.

http://www.helenbarolini.com/

See Work

Summer 1988

Horace’s Torte

By Helen Barolini
Summer 1994

The Italian Side of Emily Dickinson

By Helen Barolini
Spring 1998

The Shadowy Lady of the Street of Dark Shops

By Helen Barolini
ESSAYS / Autumn 2002

Effie In Venice and the Roman Spring of Margaret Fuller

By Helen Barolini

I first came to know Effie Ruskin some decades before the play brought her to public attention and made her a heroine of sorts. In the mid-1960’s my husband and I, and our children, spent the summer at Venice’s Lido, the locale of his youth...