A. Pablo Iannone

A. Pablo Iannone was born to Italian and Spanish descendants in Argentina. He grew up in that country, where he received a formal education first attending a religious school; but later, in second year high school, joined his father, a self-made successful businessman who, forced to work for a living early in childhood, had never finished elementary school and had recently began to complete his formal education attending a public night school. After pursuing further studies in the Schools of Engineering, Exact Sciences, and Philosophy and Letters at the University of Buenos Aires and intermittently working in the family’s meat packing and real estate business, political upheaval in Argentina led Iannone to move to the US, where he pursued studies in philosophy, Latin American History and Cultures, history of science and technology, and business and economics receiving his B.A. in philosophy from U.C.L.A. (1969), and both his M.A. (1972) and Ph.D. (1975) in philosophy from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is a Full Professor of philosophy at Central Connecticut State University. In Spanish, he published a book of poetry, Astérida (Gog y Magog, 1973), a book of interconnected stories (amounting to a novella) in English, The Room with Closets: Tales of a Life Divided (Vagabond Press, 2006)—which received Silver Medal in the category Multicultural Fiction-2007 Independent Publisher Book Awards—, a novel, Open-Ended (Branden Books, 2016), previous versions of stories from The Room with Closets in English, Spanish, or both, and poems. Among the stories, "South" appeared in Fernando Alegría and Alberto Ruffinelli, eds., Paradise Lost or Gained? The Literature of Hispanic Exile (Arte Público, 1991), "Margarita's Wedding" was awarded Honorable Mention in the Mainstream/Literary Short Story category of the 1998 Writer's Digest Writing Competition, "El Vuelo de Batata," "El Casamiento de Margarita, and "El Cuarto de los Placares," appeared in the Argentine electronic publication Textos de la Víspera, and "The Dead Cat: Schrödinger's Experiment" in the Review of Art, Literature, Philosophy, and the Humanities. His philosophical publications include articles, reviews, and various books, most notably, Contemporary Moral Controversies in Technology (Oxford 1987), Contemporary Moral Controversies in Business (Oxford, 1989), Through Time and Culture (Prentice Hall, 1994), Philosophy as Diplomacy (Humanities Press, 1994), Philosophical Ecologies (Humanity Books, 1999), Dictionary of World Philosophy (Routledge, 2001), Seeking Balance: Philosophical Issues in Globalization and Policy Making (Transaction/Routledge, 2014), Practical Environmental Ethics (Transaction/Routledge, 2016). and Imagination in Inquiry (Lexington Books, October 15, 2022 ). A dramatization of his The Room with Closets was staged in May 2018 receiving raved reviews in Minneapolis by Sparkle Theatricals, a production company led by his daughter, the dancer, choreographer, writer, and educator Alejandra A. Iannone, and the tap dancer, bucket drummer, and DJ Rick Ausland.