User:Jim Correale

Jim Correale (born November 7, 1962, Boston) has lived most of his life in the neighborhood of East Boston. A graduate of Suffolk University with a degree in journalism, Correale has always dabbled in various types of writing, including poetry and fiction, essays and letters, songs and journals. For a year he contributed a column to an East Boston weekly newspaper, and for two years he covered sports for a string of weekly newspapers in suburban Portland, Maine, winning three awards in the process.

Correale worked at the Salesian Boys & Girls Club in East Boston for 13 years. From there he went to teach English for five years at his alma mater, Savio High School, also in his neighborhood. He currently teaches at Pope John XXIII Central High School in Everett, Massachusetts. Since then, Correale spent time living in Somerville, central Massachusetts and Portland. Disillusioned by much of Western society, Correale is intrigued by the idea of living a self-sufficient life in the woods of New England. He has been influenced by the writings of Henry David Thoreau, Wendell Berry, and Helen and Scott Nearing.

After discovering Wikipedia, Correale has attempted to write entries on subjects he is knowledgeable about and so far has penned pieces on the neighborhood of East Boston, the William Faulkner novel As I Lay Dying, the Ani DiFranco album Not A Pretty Girl, Boston's Suffolk University, actress Sarah Polley, filmmaker Atom Egoyan, the Wilfred Owen poem "Dulce Et Decorum Est," the novelist Cormac McCarthy, musician Sarah Jarosz and the study of the Grail legend From Ritual to Romance.