LAWRENCE MF SUDBURY
Historian, writer and essayist
WHO I AM
LET'S START WITH THE OFFICIAL CURRICULUM:
"I was born in London on 25/06/1968 but I live near Milan.
I have a degree in Literature and I am specialized in marketing and advertising
I worked for about fifteen years dividing myself between a history chair in high school and the profession of AD consultant.
Since 2005 I have started to deal with religious history and sociology, obtaining a DA in Religious Studies in Texas, a Masters in Biblical Studies and a Ph.D. in Church History in Indiana (where, for some time, I taught as a freelance ).
In the following years (2008-2019), while maintaining my history chair in high school, I also dedicated myself to the pastoral care for a liberal religious denomination, becoming its Head of International Relations and I obtained a master's degree in Journalism, specializing in Vatican Studies.
Since 2006 I have published historical-religious non-fiction texts with Il Melograno, Seneca Edizioni, Newburgh Seminary Press, EMI and EUM, receiving various reviews on local and national paper and on radio and participating in the Turin Book Fair.
I also held some conferences and collaborated with Italian and foreign universities and thematic portals (including "Centro Studi La Runa", "Archeomedia", "InStoria" and "Mondi Medievali" - Site of the Medieval History Institute of University of Bari) and specialist journals (“Segnocinema”, “InStoria”, “Fenix”), with over one hundred and fifty articles published. "
In 2021 I published my first "fiction" novel: "MALTA 1775: THE TWILIGHT OF THE KNIGHTS".
BUT, SPEAKING SERIOUSLY:
- I reached middle age pretending nothing happened;
- I live with a Boston Terrier puppy, Winston, who weighs 4 pounds, eats as if he weighs 40 (maintaining him costs as much as having a son at Harvard), has a considerable propensity for devastation and is the only living thing I could ever share my home with (and, probably, the only one who can bear to do so);
- I have the vain hope, constantly frustrated, of convincing teenagers that the history is more compelling than Netflix;
- I read because I cannot do without it and it is a drug addiction like any other, I write because I cannot do without it and it is a drug addiction like any other, I travel because I cannot do without it and it is a drug addiction like a other;
- I love to dress in the style of the 30s and I have problems with almost all aspects of contemporaneity;
- I am extremely "posh", sensitive and not very patient (except with Winston);
- I vape too much because smoking too much (as I did until a few years ago) costs more and creates more problems in climbing two floors of stairs;
- they often tell me that I have a bad expression but it's not my fault, "they draw me like this" ...
