Tom santopietro biography

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Tom Santopietro is the author of ten books: The Way We Were: The Making of a Romantic Classic, Why To Kill a Mockingbird Matters; Dancing Man: A Broadway.
Tom Santopietro is the author of seven books: Why To Kill a Mockingbird Matters, Barbara Cook: Then and Now, the bestselling The Sound of Music Story.

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I Wrote That! Author Talk: Tom Santopietro

Tom Santopietro, an author well-known for his writing about American popular culture, delves into the heart of the beloved classic, and shows readers why To Kill a Mockingbird matters more today than ever before.

Tom Santopietro's 2018 book, Why To Kill a Mockingbird Matters, takes a 360 degree look at the To Kill a Mockingbird phenomenon, both on page and screen. Santopietro traces the writing of To Kill A Mockingbird, the impact of the Pulitzer Prize, and examines exactly what makes the movie and Gregory Peck's unforgettable performance as Atticus Finch so captivating. As Americans yearn for hope and an end to divisiveness, there is no better time to look at the significance of Harper Lee's book, the film, and all that came after.

Tom Santopietro

Santopietro is the author of nine books: The Way We Were: The Making of a Romantic Classic; Dancing Man; Why To Kill a Mockingbird Matters; Barbara Cook: Then and Now; the best selling The Sound of Music Story; The Godfather Effect: Changing Hol

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Tom Santopietro

American author and Broadway theater manager

Tom Santopietro is an American author and Broadway theater manager.^[1] He worked for 25 years in the New York theater scene, managing over 30 Broadway shows.

Tom Santopietro is the author of five books: The Sound of Music Story, The Godfather Effect: Changing Hollywood, America, and Me, Sinatra in Hollywood, Considering Doris Day (a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice), and The Importance of Being Barbra. A frequent media commentator in programs ranging from the PBS documentary The Italian Americans to the Jimmy van Heusen biography Swingin' With Frank & Bing, Tom conducts monthly interviews for Barnes and Noble and lectures on classic films. Over the past thirty years he has managed more than two dozen Broadway shows.

Early life

Santopietro was born in Waterbury, Connecticut. His paternal grandfather and grandmother, Orazio Santopietro and Maria Victoria Valleta, emigrated to the U.S. from Italy at an early age. Orazio was only 13, and arrived in America with twenty li

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Santopietro, Tom

PERSONAL: Born in Waterbury, CT. Education: University of Connecticut School of Law (graduated).

CAREER: Writer, biographer, lawyer, and Broadway stage manager. Manager of Broadway shows and performances, including A Few Good Men, A Doll’s House, Master Class, The Iceman Cometh, Tru, and Noises Off.

WRITINGS

The Importance of Being Barbra, Thomas Dunne Books (New York, NY), 2006.

Considering Doris Day, Thomas Dunne Books (New York, NY), 2007.

SIDELIGHTS: A writer, biographer, and non-practicing lawyer, Tom Santopietro is a stage manager on Broadway in New York, where he has worked for more than twenty years. In his first book, The Importance of Being Barbra, Santopietro takes a careful, critical look at the career and music of diva Barbra Streisand. Santopietro “evaluates Streisand’s professional, not personal, life,” noted a Kirkus Reviews critic, and added that private particulars are noted “only as they may have shaped her work.” The author divides Streisand’s work into distinct categories, including musical recordings, films, televis