Tito Perdue
| Tito Perdue | |
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| Born | 1938 (age 78–79) Sewell, Chile |
| Occupation | novelist |
| Nationality | American |
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Tito Perdue (born 1938) is an American writer.
Perdue was born in Sewell, Chile, while his father was working there for the Braden Copper Company. He was brought up in Anniston, Alabama, where he remained until he graduated as an alumnus of Indian Springs School. He attended Antioch College in Ohio for one year, before being expelled for cohabiting with his future wife, Judy Clark. They have a daughter, Melanie, two grandsons, and one great grandson.
Perdue continued his schooling at the University of Texas (B.A. – double major in English and History) and Indiana University (M.L.S. – Librarianship; M.A. – Modern European History), yet took several breaks from university life to visit New York City. After college, Perdue worked for some years as a librarian at the University of Iowa, and Iowa State University, before trying New York for a third time at the Binghamton University. This experience lasted one and a half years; afterward, he accepted a job at Emory University in Atlanta. Within a year, at age 44, Perdue was fired, and decided to do what he had always most desired – write novels.
Perdue's Sweet-Scented Manuscript was completed within a year of his "retirement," but was not published until 2004 when it was issued by Baskerville Pres). The novel is a love story that attempts to convey the impressions and yearnings of an 18-year-old boy, Leland Pefley, in his first exploration of the world; the novel is largely autobiographical. Perdue's next novel, Lee, was about the same Leland Pefley, now an old man, bitter, hostile, angry at a world that no longer recognized the values and culture of the 1950s. He spewed venom at those who, surrounded by beauty, culture and literature, didn't bother to avail themselves of it. Other works include The Node, Fields of Asphodel and The New Austerities, which depicts Lee Pefley's flight from New York City back to his ancestral home in Alabama. That same year, Baskerville Press published Perdue's Opportunities in Alabama Agriculture, a strange fictional account of an Alabama man, school teacher, rural route mail carrier, and farmer. This character, Benjamin, is loosely based on the life of Perdue's maternal grandfather.
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