John Catalinotto

Born in 1940 in Brooklyn, John Catalinotto grew up and still resides in New York City. From one window of his Chelsea apartment he can see the Empire State Building. From another window he looked out on the World Trade Center, where he would have been on Sept. 11, 2001, had he arrived on time for work. Coming of age at the height of the Cold War, his moment of truth was the October 1962 missile crisis, which propelled him into a life of political activism. From 1967 to 1971 he organized U.S....See more

Born in 1940 in Brooklyn, John Catalinotto grew up and still resides in New York City. From one window of his Chelsea apartment he can see the Empire State Building. From another window he looked out on the World Trade Center, where he would have been on Sept. 11, 2001, had he arrived on time for work. Coming of age at the height of the Cold War, his moment of truth was the October 1962 missile crisis, which propelled him into a life of political activism. From 1967 to 1971 he organized U.S. service members against the war in Vietnam, an experience described in a history he wrote of that period. Since 1982 Catalinotto has been a managing editor of the weekly socialist newspaper Workers World. His addiction to learning languages, reinforced by feelings of international solidarity, enabled him to address political forums in six languages on five continents. Since retiring from teaching mathematics in 2011, he has translated articles into English at workers.org and at tlaxcala-int.blogspot.com. Catalinotto never dreamed of writing a novel until persistent memories of youthful trauma led to the realization that the best route to truth is often through fiction; he then wrote Cold War - A Love Story. Catalinotto is the author of Turn the Guns Around: Mutinies, Soldier Revolts and Revolution, World View Forum, New York 2017, and edited Hidden Agenda: U.S./NATO Takeover of Yugoslavia, International Action Center, New York, 2002. See less