Niccolò Tucci
Niccolò Tucci (1 May 1908 – 10 December 1999) was a short story writer and novelist who wrote in English and Italian.
Early life and family
[edit]Tucci was born in Lugano, Switzerland, on 1 May 1908, to a Russian mother and an Italian father who became a Swiss citizen. Niccolò Tucci grew up in privileged circumstances that were eliminated by the Bolshevik Revolution. His family relocated to Tuscany.[citation needed]
His daughter, Maria Tucci, is an actress who married her father's former editor, Robert Gottlieb.[citation needed]
Career
[edit]In 1938, he resigned a position with Mussolini's Press Ministry and immigrated to the United States. He wrote numerous short stories and a few longer works, many of which are largely autobiographical in their subject matter.[citation needed]
Death
[edit]Tucci died on 10 December 1999.
Works
[edit]Books
[edit]- Il Segreto (1956)
- Before My Time (1962)
- Unfinished Funeral (1964)
- Gli Atlantici (1968)
- Confessioni Involontarie (1975)
- The Sun and the Moon (1977)
- The Rain Came Last and Other Stories (1990)
Stories
[edit]| Title | Publication | Collected in |
|---|---|---|
| "Where Anarchy Begins" | Partisan Review 11.2 (Spring 1944) | - |
| "The Siege" | Harper's (February 1946) | The Rain Came Last and Other Stories |
| "The Schemers" | Harper's (August 1946) | |
| "Hey!" | Twice a Year (Fall 1946-Winter 1947) | |
| "The Evolution of Knowledge" | The New Yorker (12 April 1947) | |
| "Strong Man" | The New Yorker (17 May 1947) | - |
| "The Truce" | The New Yorker (5 July 1947) | - |
| "The Rain Came Last" | Harper's (January 1948) | The Rain Came Last and Other Stories |
| "The News" aka "The Assignment" | The New Yorker (10 April 1948) | |
| "Military Intelligence" | The New Yorker (29 May 1948) | |
| "The Prisoner" | The New Yorker (23 October 1948) | - |
| "Tronco" | Harper's (November 1949) | - |
| "History Comes C.O.D." | The New Yorker (14 January 1950) | The Rain Came Last and Other Stories |
| "Brother Lenin" | The New Yorker (1 April 1950) | - |
| "The Underground Settlers" | The New Yorker (4 August 1951) | The Rain Came Last and Other Stories |
| "Those Long Shadows" | Botteghe Oscure 8 (1951) | |
| "The Lonely Song" | New Directions in Prose & Poetry 13 (1951) | - |
| "Stolen Dream" | The New Yorker (19 January 1952) | - |
| "The Queen and I" | The New Yorker (3 May 1952) | - |
| "The Death of the Maid" | Harper's (October 1952) | - |
| "Morte di scarandogi" | Botteghe Oscure 12 (1953) | Il segreto |
| "Last Stand" | The New Yorker (17 April 1954) | - |
| "Ombre lunghe" | L'Illustrazione Italiana (November 1954) | Il segreto |
| "Il segreto" | Botteghe Oscure 15 (1955) | |
| "Special Ambassador" | Mademoiselle (April 1956) | - |
| "The Dollmaker" | The Atlantic (September 1956) | - |
| "I tempi buoni" | Il segreto (1956) | Il segreto |
| "Della palla del mondo" | ||
| "La gran festa dell’oggi" | ||
| "I segreti della mamma" | ||
| "Figli e padri" | ||
| "Il sogno rubato" | ||
| "Le parole" | ||
| "The Beautiful Blue Horse" | The New Yorker (13 April 1957) | The Rain Came Last and Other Stories |
| "Terror and Grief" | The New Yorker (15 November 1958) | |
| "This Particular Rich Lady" | Botteghe Oscure 24 (1959) | |
| "Death of the Professor" | The New Yorker (27 February 1960) | |
| "The Trigger" | The New Yorker (10 June 1961) | - |
| "Four Dialogues" | The New Yorker (18 August 1962) | - |
| "The Desert in the Oasis" | The New Yorker (6 October 1962) | - |
| "The Announcement" | The New Yorker (29 December 1962) | - |
| "The Worst" | Esquire (August 1965) | - |
| "But Where Is the Month of December?" | Ploughshares 6.3 (Fall 1980) | - |
| "The French Revolution" | The Paris Review 111 (Summer 1989) | - |
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