Tony Vigorito

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Tony Vigorito
BornTony Vigorito
Occupation
  • Novelist
  • essayist
  • social theorist
NationalityAmerican
Genre Fictional prose
Website
tonyvigorito.com

Tony Vigorito is an American author. [1] [2] [3] His published books include Just a Couple of Days , Nine Kinds of Naked , and Love and Other Pranks .

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References

  1. Gallagher, Rosemary. "Rosemary Gallagher reflects on her time at Berkeley". Irish Association for American Studies.
  2. "Globalish Interviews Novelist Tony Vigorito". Globalish. 17 November 2015.
  3. Gonzales, Jon (26 May 2015). "Ukulele Artist Getting Over The Hump". PR Newswire. Retrieved 6 December 2015.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)