Domenica Di Piazza
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Publishing |
| Occupation | Editorial Director |
| Location | Minneapolis, MN |
| Introduction | I am the editorial director of the Twenty-First Century Books YA nonfiction imprint with Lerner Publishing Group. |
| Interests | reading, France, Italy, Sicily, gardening, cooking, travel, yoga, biking, Latin dance |
| Favorite Movies | For starters, a little known Elaine May film called "A New Leaf"; classic Alfred Hitchcock ("Notorious, " "To Catch a Thief, " "North by Northwest"); French films ("Diva, " "Jules et Jim, " "Rules of the Game"); three of the Merchant/Ivory collaborations ("Shakespeare Wallah, " "Room with a View, " and "Howard's End"), and documentaries such as "Particle Fever" (about the discovery of the Higgs Boson) and "Print the Legend" (about the entrepreneurial aspects of developing 3D printing) |
| Favorite Music | For the moment, any aria by Spanish soprano Montserrat Caballe |
| Favorite Books | Italian crime novels right now (the Andrea Camilleri Montalbano mysteries for starters, set in Sicily, and the Donna Leon Brunetti mysteries, set in Venice) |