Todd DePastino

Todd DePastino (born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States) is an author and history professor.

Todd DePastino
BornPittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
OccupationAuthor, History professor
Alma materBoston College MA
Yale University Ph.D. in American History
GenreHistorical
Website
depastino.com

Biography

Personal life

DePastino and his wife Stephanie live in Pittsburgh with their two children.[1]

Education

Mt. Lebanon High School in Pittsburgh; BA in History and Philosophy from Boston College; MA and Ph.D. in American History from Yale University.

Academic career

DePastino teaches at Penn State Beaver.[2]

Writing career

With the birth of his first daughter in 1996, DePastino became a stay-at-home dad, teaching in the evenings at Penn State Beaver and Waynesburg College while finishing his Ph.D. He then revised his dissertation on the history of homelessness into a book, for which he won a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. The result was Citizen Hobo: How a Century of Homelessness Shaped America (2003).

After editing, annotating, and introducing the lost classic, The Road by Jack London, DePastino plunged into his Bill Mauldin research. Bill Mauldin: A Life Up Front (2008) received strong reviews, was an Eisner Award finalist, and won the Sperber Prize for the best biography of a major media figure.[3] His award-winning double-volume collection of Mauldin's World War II cartoons, Willie & Joe: The WWII Years (2008) was followed in 2011 by Willie & Joe: Back Home, which covers 1945-1946.

Commissioned in Battle: A Combat Infantryman in the Pacific, co-authored by Jay Gruenfled, was released by Hellgate Press in early 2012.

Other work

DePastino is the director of the Pittsburgh-based Veterans Breakfast Club.[2][4]

Works
  • Bill Mauldin: A Life Up Front, W.W. Norton, 320 pp., 92 illus. ISBN 978-0-393-06183-3
  • WILLIE & JOE: THE WWII Years, Fantagraphics Books, 650 pp., ISBN 978-1-56097-838-1
  • Citizen Hobo: How A Century of Homelessness Shaped America, University of Chicago Press, 350 pp., 27 illus., ISBN 978-0-226-14378-1
  • The Road, By Jack London, Rutgers University Press, 168 pp., 48 illus., ISBN 978-0-8135-3807-5
  • WILLIE & JOE: Back Home, Fantagraphics Books, 288 pp., ISBN 1-60699-351-8
  • Commissioned in Battle: A Combat Infantryman in the Pacific, WWII, With Jay Gruenfeld, Hellgate Press, 2012. ISBN 1555717004
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References
  1. "Todd DePastino". Retrieved June 6, 2018.
  2. "Penn State Beaver: Bringing the community into the classroom".
  3. Janet Sassi. "Sperber Prize Recognizes Biography of World War II Cartoonist". Fordham Newsroom.
  4. 90.5 WESA. "Todd DePastino, Hosting Breakfast For Veterans".
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