Phillip Parotti

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.

Selected bibliography

• The Greek Generals Talk: Memoirs of the Trojan War (1986).
• The Trojan Generals Talk: Memoirs of the Greek War (1988).
• Fires in the Sky (1990).
• "Splinter on the Tide" (2021).
• "A Cast of Falcons" (2021).
• "In the Shadows of Guadalcanal" (2022) Winner of the Arizona-New Mexico Book Award for Historical Fiction.
• "Riders Upon the Storm" (2023).
• "Through Bitter Seas" (2023).

Sources

• Literature Resource Centre, Sam Houston State University website.