Author Bio

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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