Joe Pintauro, Novelist
Pintauro is the author of two novels, State of Grace and Cold Hands, the latter of which was chosen by The New York Times as one of the best novels of the year.
Cold Hands was described by Evan Hunter in The New York Times Book Review as “a deceptively simple, hauntingly beautiful book,” and singled it out as one of the year's finest novels.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author and legendary broadcaster Studs Terkel praised Pintuaro as “highly literate, brilliantly clear, and wonderfully operatic, Pintauro's voice is a definite original.”