About Me
About the Author
C. B. Anthony is the pen name for Carl A. Battaglia, a retired college English professor who taught writing, literature, and film for over twenty-five years.
About himself, this is all you need to know.
Battaglia spent far too much of his youth collecting bad jokes and inflicting them on his family. Then adolescence took him on a seriou
C. B. Anthony is the pen name for Carl A. Battaglia, a retired college English professor who taught writing, literature, and film for over twenty-five years.
About himself, this is all you need to know.
Battaglia spent far too much of his youth collecting bad jokes and inflicting them on his family. Then adolescence took him on a serious philosophical and religious turn, driven by excessive amounts of Kierkegaard and Dostoevsky, and landing him for a full year in a Jesuit novitiate.
In college, he developed a lifelong love of literature. Stories engulfed him. This led him to earn a master’s degree in English literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
In the intervening years, Battaglia had various careers, including TV producer-director and (failed) Hollywood screenwriter.
Perhaps his happiest job was as a college English teacher. Armed with a doctorate, he had a lengthy teaching career at UW-Madison and UW-Green Bay.
Battaglia is now retired. And under the pen name of C. B. Anthony, he has been writing as he pleases, starting with his first novel, Angel Wings: A Modern Fairy Tale.