“Tom Mendicino admits he has no idea where he gets his talent for writing.
Born in Trafford and raised in Harrison City, Westmoreland County, he was a ‘working-class kid’ whose father was a World War II veteran with a knack for mathematics, his mother a gifted seamstress.
‘There was nobody in my family who was an artist or a musician or anything like that,’ says Mendicino, who graduated from Greensburg Central Catholic High School in 1972. ‘Even as a little kid, I was a loner. I just always had a very active imagination and would make up stories.'”
THE BOYS FROM EIGHTH AND CARPENTER by Tom Mendicino was featured on @littsburgh! Check it out: https://t.co/LtdWe1LltG
— Kensington Books (@KensingtonBooks) October 20, 2015