Eugene Christy

Eugene Christy is a novelist, poet and musician currently enjoying retirement in his home in the Berkshires. His maternal grandparents Antonio Scioscia and Giuseppina Fabrizio came from Alta Villa Irpina, near Avellino, in the South of Italy. He is a graduate of both Boston College and the University of Rhode Island, where he did his master’s degree in 1970, focusing on the authors of the Irish Literary Revival. At Boston College, he studied under Seán Ó Faoláin, and as a post-graduate under James Dickey and Larry McMurtry.

Appearing as Gene Christy, he was previously known around the Berkshires as the singer-songwriter and accordian-player who led The Dossers, the Irish-themed pub-band trio also featuring Bill Morrison and Rick Marquis.

His current project, seven years in the making, is called THE TWENTIETH CENTURY QUINTET, five novels telling the saga of Antonio LaStoria and his descendants through three generations in America from 1899 to 1972, now being published by Adelaide Books, New York and Lisbon, in 2020 and 2021. Volume 1 in this series of novels, ARRIVEDERCI NEW YORK, came out on Feb. 16th, 2020, and its sequel, MY SON THE AMERICAN, is due for release in August of 2020. Volumes 3, 4 and 5 will follow at Christmastime of 2020 and early in 2021.

After Volume 1, each novel in THE TWENTIETH CENTURY QUINTET is a sequel of the one before, forming a continuous narration of three generations of an archetypal American immigrant family from 1899 to 1972, and from Italy to America to Ireland, from the battlefields of World War II to the streets of Belfast and Derry during The Troubles.