2 Quotes & Sayings By Joe Caruso

Joseph Caruso was born in New York City in 1948. He received a BA from The College of Mount Saint Vincent in 1970 and an MA from State University College at Purchase in 1974. He studied creative writing at the University of California, Irvine, including a fellowship at the Cazenovia Arts Center, and worked for The Village Voice. He subsequently worked as a staff writer for Esquire magazine, The New York Times Magazine, the New York Post , GQ , and Harper's Magazine Read more

Caruso began his career as a freelance writer in 1977, while still attending college. His first book, The Last Good Day of the Year , published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1978, was named one of the ten best books of that year by Publishers Weekly .

His second novel, This Sweet Sickness , was published by Random House in 1982 and won the 1983 National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction . His fourth novel, The Shooting Star Tattoo , was published by Random House in 1991 and was short-listed for the Booker Prize . His most recent novel is The Long Way Home .