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About DAVID FERRARO

Geraldine Anne Ferraro (August 26, 1935 – March 26, 2011) was an American politician, diplomat, and attorney who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1979 to 1985, representing New York's 9th congressional district. A member of the Democratic Party, she was the party's vice presidential nominee in the 1984 presidential election, running alongside presidential nominee and former Vice President Walter Mondale; this made her the first female vice-presidential nominee representing a major American political party. Ferraro was also a journalist, author, and businesswoman.

Born in Newburgh, New York, Ferraro grew up in New York City. She attended Marymount Manhattan College, where she met her future husband John Zaccaro, whom she married in 1960. After earning a Juris Doctor from the Fordham University, Ferraro worked as a public school teacher before training as a lawyer. She joined the Queens County District Attorney's Office in 1974, heading the new Special Victims Bureau that dealt with sex crimes, child abuse, and domestic violence. In 1978, she was elected to the House of Representatives, and held this seat until 1985. During her tenure in the House, Ferraro rose rapidly in the Democratic Party hierarchy while focusing on legislation to bring equity for women in the areas of wages, pensions, and retirement plans.

In 1984, former Vice President and presidential nominee Mondale, seen as an underdog, selected Ferraro as his running mate for the upcoming presidential election. In doing so, Ferraro also became the first widely recognized Italian American to be a major-party national nominee. The positive polling the Mondale–Ferraro ticket received when she joined soon faded, as damaging questions arose about her and her businessman husband…

DAVID FERRARO writes about Fiction, lgbtq+, gay, Fiction, horror, and Children's fiction. Their best-known work is Alchemy of Moonlight.

On FindMyTBR we track 3 books by DAVID FERRARO, 3 of them confirmed as audiobooks on Spotify or Apple Books — including A Vile Season, Soul of a Gentleman Witch, and The Alchemy of Moonlight. Full availability across Spotify, Apple Books, Audible, and Amazon is below.