Robert M. Scotto

Robert Scotto was a professor of English at Baruch College, CUNY, until his recent retirement. His previous publications include a Critical Edition of Catch-22, a book on the contemporary American novel and essays on Walter Pater, James Joyce and other major nineteenth and twentieth century writers.

The first edition of his biography, Moondog, won the 2008 ARSC Award for Best Research in Recorded Classical Music and the Independent Publisher Book Awards 2008 bronze medal for biography. A second edition, to be released in conjunction with a documentary featuring him as a principal participant, will be published next year. He has written the entry for Moondog in the second edition of The Grove Dictionary of American Music.

Although he has published poems occasionally in small journals throughout his life, his recent collection, Journey Through India and Nepal, is his first.