Louis Marano was born in 1943 in Buffalo,
NY, the eldest of nine children in an Italian-American family in which the 19th-century
village culture of his immigrant grandparents endured. In 1966 he graduated
from Canisius College, fortunate to catch the tail end of 500 years of
excellence in Jesuit education that was about to disintegrate.
He went on active duty in the U.S. Navy and
served two tours in Vietnam in a Seabee battalion.
After military service, he earned an MS in
interdisciplinary social science and an MA in anthropology at the State
University of New York at Buffalo. Anthropological fieldwork in the north woods
of Canada led to his living among the Ojibwa and Cree Indians from 1974 to
1979.
In 1981 Marano received his PhD in cultural
anthropology at the University of Florida, a student of theoretician Marvin
Harris. After two years as an assistant professor at Drake University, he spent
21 years in the news business in Washington, DC. From 1984 to 1988, he was on
the Foreign Desk of The Washington Times. From 1989 to 1999, he was a copy
editor in the Editorial Department of The Washington Post. And from 2000 to
2005, he was a reporter, columnist, and feature writer for United Press
International.
A position at the Institute for Defense
Analyses led to two tours in Iraq as a civilian contractor for the U.S. Army.
In 2007-2008, he was a field anthropologist on a Human Terrain Team, and in
2009 he was an instructor at the Army’s counterinsurgency school outside
Baghdad.
Louis Marano has three children and three
grandchildren. He lives in Fauquier County, Virginia. The Tribalist is his first novel.
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