Phillip Parotti, Date of Birth

Phillip Parotti

American writer

Date of Birth: 18-May-1941

Profession: military officer, novelist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Phillip Elliott Parotti (born May 18, 1941) is an American fiction writer and educator. Parotti was born in Silver City, New Mexico, the son of Abramo Angelo Parotti, a college professor, and Jerry Ann (née Elliott), a pianist.
He married Shirley Brewer in 1964.
A former U.S.
naval officer, Dr.
Parotti was a literature professor at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas, from 1972 until his retirement in 2004, and was the fiction editor of Texas Review from 1976-1984.
Besides his novels, he has had short fiction published in a number of periodicals.
His three mytho-historical novels, The Greek Generals Talk, The Trojan Generals Talk, and Fires in the Sky, all relate to the Trojan War, and have all been critically well received.