Robert Girardi
| Robert Girardi | |
|---|---|
| Born | Robert Girardi November 18, 1961 Springfield, Virginia |
| Occupation | Author |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Virginia, University of Iowa |
| Genre | Mystery fiction, Detective fiction, essays |
| Notable works |
Madeleine's Ghost |
Madeleine's Ghost
The Pirate's Daughter: A Novel of Adventure
Vaporetto 13: A Novel
A Vaudeville of Devils: Seven Moral Tales
The Wrong Doyle
Robert Girardi (born November 18, 1961) is an American author, writing on the themes of mystery or detective fiction, and religion, like an American Graham Greene, and loser narrator, like Sam Lipsyte.
I think the world is much more of a place in which a man can be rescued by cows from pirates than it is this Raymond Carver world: "The man picked up a cup of coffee. He put it down. He knew there would be no coffee today." [referring to Daphnis and Chloe]
I'll always be slightly out of sync with my contemporaries. I've never felt fully American - despite valiant attempts, I cannot bring myself to enjoy pro football or shopping malls. At the same time, I'm certainly not European. Instead I'm something in between, a perennial expatriate, a refugee from the gray skys over France, from the screech of the train coming into the Gare St. Lazare, from the wind blowing cold off Mount Olympus through the cracks around our bathroom window.
Girardi was born in Springfield, Virginia, a suburb of Washington, D.C., the youngest of four children (two sisters and one brother), and educated in Springfield, Athens, and Paris. "...I went to Catholic school, and she told us stories from the Bible. Then she left, and a Greek woman came and told us Greek myths. So as a narrative, it was the best education that you could get." His father was a CIA agent starting in Vienna, then Athens (during the military coup), and then Paris.
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