William Farina
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| William Edward Farina | |
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 William Farina |
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| Born | December 7, 1955 LaPorte, Indiana |
| Occupation | Author, Essayist |
| Nationality | United States |
| Genres | Popular Non-Fiction |
William Edward Farina (b. December 7, 1955, LaPorte, Indiana) is an American essayist and writer of popular non-fiction.
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[edit] Biography
Farina was born, reared and educated in LaPorte, Indiana. He attended Valparaiso University on a baseball athletic scholarship and received his bachelor’s degree with a double major in English and Philosophy in 1978, then a law degree from the same institution in 1981. That same year he became a member of the Illinois bar and moved to Chicago.
Since 1979, he has enjoyed a successful career as a real estate consultant, specializing in the evaluation of affordable housing. The grandson of Sicilian immigrants on his father’s side, Farina is also a Mayflower descendant from his mother’s family. Broad contrasts in ethnic and cultural identities characterize his work. He and his wife, Marion Buckley, live in Evanston, Illinois.
[edit] Career
Dismayed by the results of the 2004 elections, Farina resolved to devote spare time to the field of education. Foremost among his activities has been a projected series of short books on various scholarly topics, written from a layman’s perspective. Farina’s first collection, titled De Vere as Shakespeare: An Oxfordian Reading of the Canon (McFarland & Company, 2006) addresses the Shakespeare authorship question.
It won the 2007 Award for Scholarly Excellence presented by the Shakespeare Authorship Studies Conference of Concordia University-Portland, and recently earned praise in Washington State University’s Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature. His second book, Ulysses S. Grant, 1861-1864: His Rise from Obscurity to Military Greatness, released in 2007, covers the early Civil War career of Grant from the perspective of Farina’s maternal ancestors, all of whom fought for the Confederacy.
[edit] Works
De Vere as Shakespeare: An Oxfordian Reading of the Canon (2006)
Ulysses S. Grant, 1861-1864: His Rise from Obscurity to Military Greatness (2007)
[edit] Quotes
"A more enlightened view is that Grant’s many faults underscore the profundity of his greatness. It also points the way to a better understanding of other American heroes, who were perhaps not as flawless as they are often made out to be by mythmakers posing as educators." (Ulysses S. Grant, 1861-1864)
