Maria Laurino Biography
Maria Laurino is a journalist, essayist, memoirist, and former political speechwriter from the United States. Laurino began her journalism career at The Village Voice, where she covered local and state politics as well as social concerns such as New York’s housing market and the resulting increase in the city’s homeless population.
Maria Laurino Age
Maria Laurino Eucation
She attended Georgetown University and New York University for her graduate studies in English literature.
Maria Laurino Husband- Child
Anthony Shorris, a civil servant who served as First Deputy Mayor of New York City and Executive Director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, is Laurino’s husband. They live in New York City with their one son.
Maria Laurino Career
Laurino began her journalism career at The Village Voice, where she covered local and state politics as well as social concerns such as New York’s housing market and the resulting increase in the city’s homeless population. Laurino departed the Village Voice in 1989 to become the Chief Speechwriter for New York City Mayor David Dinkins, a position he held until the conclusion of his term in 1993. Laurino returned to freelance journalism after leaving government, writing for a variety of newspapers, including The New York Times, and her writings have been widely anthologized, including in the Norton Reader. Were You Always an Italian?, her debut memoir, was a national best-seller that addressed the question of ethnic identification among Italian-Americans. Old World Daughter is her second memoir.
Maria Laurino Books
Were You Always an Italian?, her debut memoir, was a national best-seller that addressed the question of ethnic identification among Italian-Americans. Her second book, Old World Daughter, New World Mother, explored the author’s conflicting feelings about Old World traditions that valued familial dependency and New World feminism that promoted female autonomy. She published The Italian Americans: A History in 2014, which chronicles the Italian-American experience from 1860 to the present (a companion book to the PBS series of the same name).
Laurino Net Worth
Maria has an estimated net worth of 5 million dollars.