Eugene Christy holds his B.A. from Boston College, 1968, and his M.A. from the University of Rhode Island, 1970. He has been many things, a parent, a teacher, a writer, a musician, a traveler in foreign lands, and an LPN, and is the author of The Twentieth Century Quintet, a five-volume historical fiction series telling the saga of three generations of an American immigrant family from 1899 to 1972, published by Adelaide Books, New York and Lisbon, in 2020 and 2021. Mr. Christy humbly credits his maternal grandparents, Antonio Scioscia and Giuseppina Fabrizio, who came from Alta Villa Irpina, near Avellino, in the Mezzogiorno, his mother and her six brothers and sisters, as well as his father, who was a coal miner from Fayette County, PA, as the models for the characters who appear under other names in his fiction. He has been fortunate to study under the notable writers Seán O'Faoláin, James Dickey, and Larry McMurtry. His latest novel is a radical departure from anything he has done before, a Washington, DC political thriller called Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye.