Craig J Carrozzi

Author/Lecturer Craig Carrozzi's works are as eclectic as his lifestyle and reflect his deep commitment to writing and storytelling as an artistic way of life rather than simply a craft or profession.

In his early 20s, Carrozzi worked and lived for two years as a recreation director/counselor in a juvenile facility and as a construction manager in Colombia. Then he went to Brasil and worked as an English teacher in Salvador, Bahia. He also made numerous adventure trips all over the continent, including sojourns to the Amazon River, Machu Pichu, and other lesser known but perhaps even more interesting places. The result of this three-year ferment was a trilogy of South American adventure travel books, "Wedding of the Waters", "The Road to El Dorado" and "Festival of Conception".

A native San Franciscan, Carrozzi used his life experiences and the rich history of this city as the backdrop for three historical novels. "City 'Scapes" is a nostalgic look at the San Francisco Giants baseball team in the early 60s as seen through the eyes of two young boys. "The Curse of Chief Tenaya" is a journey to the Old West involving a true Indian curse and a requiem to the Hetch Hetchy Valley which was expropriated from Yosemite National Park to serve as San Francisco's drinking fountain, and "India Basin Triangle" a work that reflects his interest in Noir novels and films such as "The Maltese Falcon" and "The Big Sleep". Much of the material for this story came from Carrozzi's experience as a Spanish translator for the FBI in the early 1980s. He was hired through an agency to transcribe and translate hundreds of hours of taped phone conversations between an international cocaine ring and their customers and collaborators. It was a famous case at the time and made front page headlines.

Craig later moved to Yucatan, Mexico and spent a year studying traditional Mayan medicine, which entailed travelling from one little village to another and learning age-old secrets from a traditional herbalist and shamans and translating them into English for an integrative medicine doctor.

Craig's latest book, "Child of the 1960s", is a memoir of life in San Francisco in the tumultuous 1960s."