Phillip Parotti


Phillip Elliott Parotti is an American fiction writer and educator.
Parotti was born in Silver City, New Mexico, the son of Abramo Angelo Parotti, a college professor, and Jerry Ann, a pianist. He married Shirley Brewer in 1964. A former U.S. naval officer, Dr. Parotti was a literature professor at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas, from 1972 until his retirement in 2004, and was the fiction editor of Texas Review from 1976-1984. Besides his novels, he has had short fiction published in a number of periodicals. His three mytho-historical novels, The Greek Generals Talk, The Trojan Generals Talk, and Fires in the Sky, all relate to the Trojan War, and have all been critically well received.

Selected bibliography

  • The Greek Generals Talk: Memoirs of the Trojan War.
  • The Trojan Generals Talk: Memoirs of the Greek War.
  • Fires in the Sky.
  • "Splinter on the Tide".
  • "A Cast of Falcons".
  • "In the Shadows of Guadalcanal" Winner of the Arizona-New Mexico Book Award for Historical Fiction.
  • "Riders Upon the Storm".
  • "Through Bitter Seas".