Joseph A. Bonelli holds a Bachelors degree in Comparative World Literature from the University of Southern California and a Masters degree in Social Service Administration from the University of Chicago. He has worked in policy analysis evaluation and regulatory writing in Washington, DC and for the State of California. He has been a child protective services supervisor, substitute teacher, and medical social worker. He is also the author of the novels Congo Ape Kitabu, The Cassandra Group, and The Corona Year Diary of Sigurd Bergman, MD, the biographies The Caballero from Catalonia: The Life of Juan Duval and Bruce Lakofka, The People's Artist; and 769 Movies You Must See Before Your 100th Birthday. As a young man starting his college career in the early 1960s in his native Hollywood, he hung around Theater Arts departments, watching and listening. He played a Townsman (two lines) in "Inherit the Wind." Break a leg!
