Tony ardizzone biography
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Tony Ardizzone (American football)
American football player (born 1956)
American football player
Anthony Allen Ardizzone (born December 19, 1956) is a former American footballoffensive lineman in the National Football League (NFL) who played for the Chicago Bears. He played college football for the Northwestern Wildcats.[1][2]
College career
[edit]Ardizzone attended and played college football at the Northwestern University from 1974 to 1977.
Professional career
[edit]Ardizzone was selected in the sixth round (#153 overall) of the 1978 NFL draft by the Detroit Lions. He played all 16 games with the Chicago Bears in 1979.
Personal life
[edit]On April 1, 2007; Ardizzone began a CertaPro Franchise in Glenview, Illinois. The Franchise, CertaPro Painters of the North Shore, has been accredited by the Better Business Bureau since September 2009. The franchise is still owned by Ardizzone as of March 2023, marking 15 years in the painting business.[3][4]
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Tony Ardizzone
American writer
For the American football offensive lineman, see Tony Ardizzone (American football).
Anthony V. Ardizzone (born 1949 in Chicago, Illinois, United States) is an American novelist, short story writer, and editor.
Biography
[edit]Ardizzone was raised on the North Side of Chicago. He graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, in 1971 and from Bowling Green State University with an MFA in 1975. In 1973 he also did a year of study at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
He taught at Saint Mary's Center for Learning (Chicago), Bowling Green State University, Old Dominion University,[1] and Vermont College of Norwich University. In 1985, he taught at Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco. His work appeared in Ploughshares.[2]
He served on the board of directors of the Association of Writers & Writing Programs.
As of 2010[update] Ardizzone is a Chancellor's Professor in the MFA program at Indiana University,[3] and lives in Bloomington, Indiana.[4]
Awards
[edit]- 1986 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction for The Evening News
- 1992 Milkweed National Fiction Prize for Larabi's Ox: Stories of Morocco.
- 1992 Chicago Foundation for Literature Award for Fi
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Collection context
Recapitulation
- Creator:
- Ardizzone, Tony.
- Abstract:
- The Ardizzone, Suffragist V. mss. consists custom the identification of creator and Nation professor Tony Ardizzone, 1949-.
- Extent:
- 13 Boxes
- Language:
- English .
- Preferred citation:
[Item], Ardizzone, Suffragist V. mss., Lilly Assemblage, Indiana Further education college, Bloomington, Indiana.
Background
- Biographical / Historical:
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