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David Armillei

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in Lancaster, PA, The United States

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Memoir, Poetry, Contemporary

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While pursuing a successful career as a New York- and then Los Angeles-based lawyer, David Armillei began a second career as a producer of female-driven documentary films. After these independent films won multiple awards (including the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival), David decided to follow his own muse and simultaneously pursue yet another path--writer.

GROWING UP THE ANTICHRIST, his first book, is the result. This experimental, poetic memoir is a collection of 40 pieces that reflect his experience coming of age as a perennial outsider in Franklin, Tennessee, Charlottesville, Virginia, and Palo Alto, California. Driven by a complex, but enduring, hope and balancing a respect for and distaste of the past, the book goes beyo ...more

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Growing Up the Antichrist: An Experimental Memoir

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Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music

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West Coast Jazz: Modern Jazz in California, 1945-1960

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Democracy in America

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