A collection of essays originally published as a weekly column in The Santa Fe NEW MEXICAN's Sunday supplement. Provocative insights into the life of an artist-writer -- his family and friends, extensive travels, experiences in World War II. An incisive and personal perspective of life in the recently-closed 20th century by one of Santa Fe's most renowned long-time residents of the celebrated art colony.
Penning stories since he was a boy, Drew Bacigalupa was among prize-winners at age 10 for an entry to a newspaper writing contest open to all ages by The Baltimore Sun. As feature-editor of his weekly high-school paper The Collegian, he was member of a staff occasionally critiqued by Baltimore's celebrated man-of-letters H.L.Mencken. Following military service in England, Belgium, France and Germany, he was transferred at the end of hostilities in World War II from Germany to Biarritz American University, France. There, he earned Certificate for Excellence for studies in Creative Writing. In New Mexico, he wrote a popular weekly column in the Sunday supplement of The Santa Fe New Mexican; and over decades there, his numerous articles, prize-winning short stories and essays have been published in that paper as well as The Santa Fe Reporter. In 2002, he was awarded the LericiPea Foundation's "Ligure nel Mondo" prize in international poetry competition.
Resident of Santa Fe since 1954 with wife Ellen Williams Bacigalupa, Drew Bacigalupa was awarded the Mayor's Recognitiion for Excellence in the Arts 2007, and named a Santa Fe Living Treasure 2008, His writings continue to reflect his extensive travels, particularly in Italy, his consuming interest in all the arts, and his thematic probings of spiritual quests in secular societies.
