MY YOUNG LIFE

Novelist, essayist, and critic Frederic Tuten recalls his personal and artistic coming-of-age in 1950s New York, a defining period t hat would set him on the course to becoming a writer.Born in the Bronx to a Sicilian mother and Southern father, Frederic Tuten alwa ys dreamed of being an artist. Determined to trade his neighborhood streets for the romantic avenues of Paris, he learned to paint a nd draw, falling in love with the process of putting a brush to canvas, and the feeling it gave him. At fifteen, he decided to leave high sc...[Llegir més]