Bernadette Giacomazzo

Bernadette Giacomazzo (born Benedetta Rosalia Giuseppina Giacomazzo, 29 November 1977) is an American journalist, photographer and author. She wrote In Living Color: A Cultural History and The Golden Girls: A Cultural History.

Biography
Giacomazzo is the oldest of two children, born in Far Rockaway, New York. Her father, Giuseppe Giacomazzo (1936–2009), was part of the Marseilles Mafia. Her mother, Anna Maria Natalucci, is the daughter of chef Paolo Natalucci, who had a number of restaurants in New York City in the 1960s and 1970s.

In 2005, Giacomazzo co-wrote Swimming with Sharks with Melissa Deskovic. In December 2022, Giacomazzo released her first poetry chapbook, Aquarius Rising, on Nightingale & Sparrow Press. In February 2023, Giacomazzo released In Living Color: A Cultural History, which is part of Rowman & Littlefield's "Cultural History of Television" book series. The Library Journal gave it a starred review, calling it a "must-read book on the history of a show that molded Black comedy sketches and brings together different threads of social awareness, race, entrepreneurship, comedy, resilience, and bravery in the face of a world not used to seeing "in living color."" Booklist also gave the book a starred review. and was listed at number four in the outlet's Top 10 Arts Books of 2023. In August 2023, Giacomazzo released The Golden Girls: A Cultural History with Rowman & Littlefield. Publisher's Weekly said that "pop culture fans will rejoice" at "Giacomazzo's careful cultural analysis" of "issues that are still salient today.