Patruno, Nicholas

Nicholas Patruno is professor emeritus of Italian at Bryn Mawr College. In addition to his extensive research on Levi, women in the Holocaust, and immigration writers, he has published primarily on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Italian writers, including Giovanni Verga, Elio Vittorini, and Eugenio Montale. He is the author of "Language in Giovanni Verga's Early Novels" and "Understanding Primo Levi", and he has commented on Levi's life and works for NBC's "Today Show".