Julia Cooley Altrocchi

Julia Cooley Altrocchi
Born	July 4, 1883 Seymour, Connecticut, US
Died	November 23, 1972 (aged 89) Berkeley, California, US

Julia Cooley Altrocchi (July 4, 1893 - November 23, 1972) was an American author and poet, who wrote many works for children and adults, including The Poems of a Child, The Dance of Youth, Snow Covered Wagons, and Wolves Against the Moon.

Life

She was born in 1893 in Seymour, Connecticut, to Harlan Cooley and Nellie Wooster Cooley, and then was raised in Chicago, Illinois. She graduated from University High School in Chicago, and then from Vassar College in 1914. She married Rudolph Altrocchi in 1920. The couple moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1928 upon the latter's appointment as Professor and Chair of the Italian Department at the University of California, Berkeley; Julia resided in Berkeley until her death in 1972. ^[1] The couple had two sons, John Cooley and Paul Hemenway. ^[2] She is buried at Sunset View Cemetery in El Cerrito, California.

Altrocchi was a member of the California Writers Club. ^[3]

Works

• The Poems of a Child: Being Poems Written Between the Ages of Six and Ten, 1904 ^[4]
• The Dance of Youth: And Other Poems, 1917 ^[5]
• The Forgotten Etruscans, 1927 ^[6]
• Scenes at Canossa, 1935 ^[7]
• Snow-Covered Wagons, 1936 ^[8]
• Wolves Against the Moon, 1940 ^[9]
• The Old California Trail: Traces in Folklore and Furrow, 1945 ^[10]
• The Spectacular San Franciscans, 1949 ^[11]
• Ships and Spears in Genoa, 1959 ^[12]
• Girl with Ocelot: And Other Poems, 1964 ^[13]
• The Golden Wheel: A Collection of Poetry, 2007 (edited by Paul Hemenwey Altrocchi) ^[14]
• Venom and Laughter: A Colleen Copes with Anti-Irish Prejudice, with Paul Hemenwey Altrocchi (co-authored and edited after death of Julia), 2012 ^[15]
• Fraught with Hazard , with Paul Hemenwey Altrocchi (co-authored and edited after death of Julia), 2015 ^[16]

References

1. "Finding Aid to the Julia Cooley Altrocchi papers, undated, 1848-1972 (bulk 1935-1965)". oac.cdlib.org. Retrieved 2019-01-16.
2. "Guide to the Rudolph Altrocchi and Julia Cooley Altrocchi Papers 1912-1956". www.lib.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2019-01-16.
3. "California Writers' Club records, BANC MSS 69/88 c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley". oac.cdlib.org. Retrieved 2022-10-21.
4. Cooley Altrocchi, Julia (1904). The poems of a child: being poems written between the ages of six and ten. R. H. Russell.
5. Cooley Altrocchi, Julia (1917). The Dance of Youth: And Other Poems. Sherman, French.
6. Cooley Altrocchi, Julia (1927). The Forgotten Etruscans.
7. Cooley Altrocchi, Julia (1935). Scenes at Canossa. America Press.
8. "Snow-Covered Wagons". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 2019-01-16.
9. Cooley Altrocchi, Julia (1940). Wolves Against the Moon. Macmillan.
10. Cooley Altrocchi, Julia (1945). The Old California Trail. Caxton Printers.
11. "The Spectacular San Franciscans". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 2019-01-16.
12. Cooley Altrocchi, Julia (1959). Ships and Spears in Genoa. Shakespearean Authorship Society.
13. Cooley Altrocchi, Julia (1964). Girl with Ocelot: And Other Poems. Bruce Humphries.
14. Cooley Altrocchi, Julia (2007-07-09). The Golden Wheel: A Collection of Poetry. ISBN   9781462810901.
15. Cooley Altrocchi, Julia; Altrocchi, Paul Hemenway (2012-03-07). Venom and Laughter: A Colleen Copes with Anti-Irish Prejudice. iUniverse. ISBN   9781469788357.
16. Cooley Altrocchi, Julia; Altrocchi, Paul Hemenway (2015-06-04). Fraught with Hazard: The Heroic Saga of Shipwrecked Armada Survivors in Ireland. iUniverse. ISBN   9781491766804.