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Biography of Umberto Eco
Name: Umberto Eco
Birth Date: January 5, 1932
Death Date: N/A
Place of Birth: Alessandria, Italy
Nationality: Italian
Gender: Male
Occupations: scholar, professor, novelist
Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco (born 1932) is a best-selling author of mystery novels that reflect his many intellectual interests and wide-ranging knowledge of philosophy, literature, medieval history, religion, and politics. His academic work in semiotics, the science of signs by which individuals and cultures communicate, has made important contributions to studies of popular culture as well as to communication science and information theory.Umberto Eco was born in a small town in northwest Italy, the only son of an accountant. When World War II broke out, his family fled to the country to escape the bombing. There he observed conflicts between the Fascists and the partisans and experienced wartime deprivations that would later become a part of his second novel, Foucault's Pendulum. After the war, he entered the University of Turin to study law, but soon switched to medieval philosophy and literature. Partly as a result of his involvement with Italy's national organization …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…several foreign and Italian newspapers. He also edits a weekly column for the magazine L'Espresso. Further Reading Bondanella, Peter, ed.,Dictionary of Italian Literature,Greenwood, 1996.Bondanella, Peter, Umberto Eco and the Open Text: Semiotics, Fiction, Popular Culture, Cambridge University, 1997.Capozzi, Rocco, ed., Reading Eco: An Anthology, Indiana University, 1997.Civilization, June 1997.Harper's, January 1995; October 1996.The Nation, January 6, 1997.Newsweek, September 29, 1986.New York Review of Books, February 2, 1995.New York Times, December 13, 1988; October 11, 1989; December 10, 1989; October 22, 1995; Novemer 28, 1995.New Yorker, May 24, 1993.Le Nouvel Observateur, October 17, 1991.Observer, October 15, 1989.Time, March 6, 1989.US News and World Report, November 20, 1989.Washington Post, December 19, 1993.Wired, March 1997."Biblio Feature," Biblio, http://www. bibliomag.com (April 8, 1998)."Eco: Internet Will Not Replace Books," Columbia University Record, http:// www.columbia.edu/cu/record (April 9, 1998)."A Conversation on Information," Multimedia World interview, http://www.cudenver.edu (April 9, 1998)."Umberto Eco," Porta Ludovica, http://www.rpg.net/quail/libyrinth/eco (March 24, 1998)."Umberto Eco," http://www4.ncsu.edu/eos (April 4, 1998).
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