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Elverno: A Tale from a Boyhood
This story won the Houghton Mifflin award for fiction at the Hollins College Writers Conference in 1970. It is the tender story of two young boys who suddenly find themselves fatherless and alone among the 'problem boys' of Saint Elverno school.
72 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 1972
About the author
Joseph Maiolo
11 booksJoseph Maiolo was a literature and fiction writing professor at the University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD), and an award-winning writer.
Maiolo retired from UMD in 2013 after nearly 40 years of teaching, and approximately a year after he was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s Disease). He died of pneumonia in 2014.
His short stories were published in The Sewanee Review, Ploughshares, Shenandoah, other magazines, and anthologies. Several of his works won national awards, including a citation in The Best American Short Stories, a Pushcart Prize, three PEN/Syndicated Fiction Awards, and two National Endowment for the Arts Literary Fellowships.
Maiolo retired from UMD in 2013 after nearly 40 years of teaching, and approximately a year after he was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s Disease). He died of pneumonia in 2014.
His short stories were published in The Sewanee Review, Ploughshares, Shenandoah, other magazines, and anthologies. Several of his works won national awards, including a citation in The Best American Short Stories, a Pushcart Prize, three PEN/Syndicated Fiction Awards, and two National Endowment for the Arts Literary Fellowships.
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