of Italian Americans during World War II. His book Reunion in Sicily includes a story about a Sicilian-American internee who protested his innocence, to no avail, during his detainment. He was only released on parole when news came out that one of his children had been killed in a plane over Italy, so, therefore, he “couldn’t be very dangerous after all.” Two decades after the book appeared, the city of Rochester officially renamed Mangione’s old neighborhood Mount Allegro, in tribute to his book. After publication of his final book, La Storia: Five Centuries of the Italian-American Experience, Mangione was honored by the Library of Congress with an exhibition of his works and papers. Awards Mangione won Guggenheim (1946) and Fulbright fellowships. His book The Dream and the Deal was published with research grants from the Rockefeller Foundation and the American Philosophical Society. Family Mangione married Patricia Mangione, a painter from Seattle, in 1940. His 1965 novel Night Search is dedicated to her. Jerre's brother, Frank "Papa" Mangione (July, 1910 - August, 2001), whose life is chronicled in Jerre's work, "Mount Allegro" (1943), is the father of musicians Chuck Mangione and Gap Mangione. Books Mount Allegro (1943) The Ship and the Flames (1948) Reunion in Sicily (1950) Night Search (1965) Life sentences for everybody (1966) Passion for Sicilians: The World Around Danilo Dolci (1968) America is Also Italian (1969) The Dream and the Deal: The Federal Writers Project, 1935-43 (1972) An Ethnic at Large: Memoirs of America in the 30s and 40s (1978) La Storia: Five Centuries of the Italian American Experience, with Ben Morreale (1992) References Further reading 1909 births 1998 deaths 20th-century American novelists American male novelists American writers of Italian descent University of Pennsylvania faculty Writers from Rochester, New York Syracuse University alumni Historians of Sicily Historians of immigration to the United States 20th-century American male writers Novelists from New York (state) Novelists from Pennsylvania Mangione family