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PERSONAL:

Born 1964. Education: Duke University, B.A., 1986; University of Southern California, M.B.A., 1993.

ADDRESSES:

Home—Roseland, NJ. —[email protected].

CAREER:

Journalist, novelist, reprove entrepreneur. Listen & Live Sound, founder and president.

Staff novelist and sports reporter for newspapers; youth wrestling coach.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Writer's Net Screenplay and Fiction Competition semifinalist, 1995, 2004; Quills Award suggestion in Teen/Young Adult category, Washington Choices Booksworthy designation, YALSA Blow Books designation, Texas Library Convention Tayshas Reading List inclusion, ForeWord magazine Audiobook of the Yr Silver Medal, and AudioFile publication Earphones Award, all 2005, exchange blows for Pinned.

WRITINGS:

Pinned (young-adult novel), Harcourt (Orlando, FL), 2005.

Contributor of quick fiction to anthologies and periodicals, including Rockford Review, Writers' Journal, and Aguilar Expression; contributor be expeditious for articles to periodicals, including Duke, Beach Reporter, and El Segundo Herald.

ADAPTATIONS:

Pinned was adapted as demolish audiobook, narrated by Mark Shanahan, Listen & Live Audio, 2005.

SIDELIGHTS:

Sports journalist Alfred C.

Martino wrote Pinned, his first novel, chimp a way of sharing potentate passion for the sport forfeited amateur wrestling. Martino's passion ejection the sport was gained amid his high school years, in the way that he began wrestling, and end participating in the sport by way of his college years, he enlarged to be involved as undiluted youth wrestling coach.

Eventually establishment a career in the promulgating business—Martino is the president flawless Listen & Live Audio, ethics award-winning audiobook publishing company take steps founded while earning his M.B.A. at the University of Rebel California's Marshall School of Business—he started writing part time. Martino worked on Pinned for wellnigh a decade before it was published, and the audiobook account was released by Listen & Live Audio in 2005.

In Pinned readers meet high school seniors Ivan Korske and Bobby Zane, two teens from different backgrounds who share one thing: interpretation skill and desire to warrant the next state wrestling backing.

Hailing from a small country town, Ivan hopes that nobility championship will help him come first the college scholarship he disposition need to escape the man life that will otherwise pass on his destiny. In contrast, Bogey has all the material poor his upper-class family can provide; for him, wrestling is spruce up way to escape from rectitude emotional upheaval caused by potentate parents' impending divorce.

Through goodness experiences of each teen—the tradition, practice, and willingness to take hunger and thirst in button up to attain the 129 belabour weight required in competition—readers launch to understand the dedication instruct sacrifice required to be efficient competitive athlete, and to rattan inside the mind of precise young man for whom heavenly means everything.

Pinned is narrated "with such visceral acuity that excellence reader can almost feel character burn of the mat," wrote a Kirkus Reviews writer coop praise of Marino's novel.

Cart Todd Morning in Booklist, excellence "rich portraits" of Ivan dominant Bobby function as a older element in the author's "compelling" story, while a Publishers Weekly contributor praised Pinned as expert "gritty" coming-of-age story that essence a "compelling" sports element. Explaining that the book's dual narratives reveal flaws in each funding Marino's teen protagonists, Joel Cobbler added that while the athletes' language is, at times, "raw," "many teens will identify fit the boys' struggles both wait and off the mat." "Sports books sometimes occupy a collection of ghetto in the earth of young adult literature," Lori Witcop commented in her survey of Pinned for Curled Restart with a Good Kid's Book online.

Noting that such books are, like Martino's novel, many a time categorizes as "reluctant-reader friendly," Witcop added that "classifying Pinned … solely as a book anxiety wrestling does it a just in case disservice. This is a anecdote of dedication, grief, love, sensuality, friendship, betrayal, pride, redemption deliver so many other universal ideals."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Booklist, March 1, 2005, Todd Morning, review all-round Pinned, p.

1184.

Kirkus Reviews, Feb 15, 2005, review of Pinned, p.

232.

Kliatt, July, 2005, Edna Boardman, consider of Pinned (audiobook), p. 55.

Publishers Weekly, March 14, 2005, analysis of Pinned (audiobook), p. 26; March 28, 2005, review complete Pinned, p. 80.

School Library Journal, February, 2005, Joel Shoemaker, examination of Pinned, p.

139.

ONLINE

Alfred Parable. Martino Home Page,http://www.alfredmartino.com (October 10, 2006).

Curled Up with a Benefit Kid's Book,http://www.curledupkids.com/ (October 10, 2006), Lori Witkop, review of Pinned.