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Arts & Literature
Jerre Mangione
1909–1998Rochester, NYItalian American descendantHistoric
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Why Included
Mount Allegro (memoir of Sicilian-American life in Rochester)
Biography
Mount Allegro (memoir of Sicilian-American life in Rochester); pioneered Italian-American memoir literature. Mount Allegro (1943) a landmark memoir of the Sicilian-American experience; lifetime of Italian-American literary scholarship
Notable For
- Mount Allegro (memoir of Sicilian-American life in Rochester)
- pioneered Italian-American memoir literature
Honors & Recognition
- Mount Allegro (1943) a landmark memoir of the Sicilian-American experience
- lifetime of Italian-American literary scholarship
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Quick Facts
- Field
- Arts & Literature
- Specialty
- Literature/Memoir
- Years
- 1909–1998
- Birth Place
- Rochester, NY
- Origin
- Italian American descendant
- Regional Ancestry
- Sicily
- Ancestry Verification
- Needs Review
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