Joseph Papaleo (1925–2004) was an Italian American novelist, and academic.^[1]

He grew up in The Bronx. He graduated from Sarah Lawrence College, from Columbia University with an M.A., and from the University of Florence with a Ph.D.^[2]

He taught at Sarah Lawrence College.^[3]

He lived in Bronxville, New York,^[4] and Oldsmar, Florida. His work appeared in Harper's,^[5] The New Yorker,^[6] Paris Review, Paterson Literary Review.

• 2003 American Book Award
• 1973 Guggenheim Fellowship^[7]

• Italian stories. Dalkey Archive Press. 2002. ISBN 978-1-56478-306-6. Joseph Papaleo.
• Unsettling America (Viking/Penguin, 1994)
• Picasso at Ninety One (Seaport Books, 1988)
• Joseph Papaleo; Lori Hackel, eds. (1990). Delphinium Blossoms. Delphinium Books. ISBN 978-1-883285-05-0.
• All the Comforts, Little, Brown, 1967
• Out of Place 1970

• Christopher D. Morris, ed. (1999). "Ragtime Revisited: A Seminar with E.L. Doctorow and Joseph Papaleo". Conversations with E.L. Doctorow. University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-1-57806-144-0.