Peter Rizzolo

Peter Rizzolo earned a BS degree at Seton Hall University and his MD from Creighton University. Following his internship At Orange Memorial Hospital, he served as a Naval Submarine Medical Officer.

He received his residency training at Hunterdon Medical Center in Flemington New Jersey and practiced family medicine for fifteen years before joining the full-time staff at the Hunterdon Medical Center as director of residency training program in Family Medicine.

He and his wife, Alyce, were blessed with six children. They moved to Chapel Hill, North Carolina in 1978, where he joined the faculty of the University of North Carolina School Of Medicine.

After retiring as Professor of Family Medicine, he earned a master’s degree in English and creative writing at North Carolina State University.

He has published three novels:THS THING CALLED LOVE, FORBIDDEN HARVEST and JUDGING LAURA.