Maria Giusto
Bio: Maria Guisto was born in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, known as Little Italy, in New York City, New York. She is the oldest of four children born to her Sicilian immigrant father and natural born mother. However, because of the "Great Depression", her upbringing was taken over by her maternal grandparents, themselves immigrates from Sicily, Italy, who lived on a farm in the then small township of Seymour, Connecticut. When she was seven, tragedy struck when her grandmother died suddenly of pneumonia. She, along with her younger brother, were sent back to her parents, who lived in the Project of Red Hook, in New York City. At age twelve, she, her two brothers and parents returned to Seymour, Connecticut, where her father started a new working career. At the young age of seventeen, she moved again, this time to live with her new husband's family in Los Angeles, California. There she finished her high school education going onto college, where she finished flight school and obtained a B.E. in Industrial Engineering. After a short stint working in the drafting department of Douglas Aircraft, she returned to her first passion, the fashion field, as an Industrial Engineer and Technical Designer. Until her retirement, in 1996, she had worked with some of the most prestigeous designers and companies of the last century. Although she has written professional articles and short stories, in various forms, most of her life, The Emigrant, published by 4 Points Press Publishing Company, is her first novella and biographical attempt. Her first fictional novel, The Oedipus Syndrome, published by the same company, will soon appear, in serialized form, as an E-Book, on-line, in the BOOK section. Ms. Giusto currently lives in Los Angeles, California with her husband.
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