Provided by Wikipedia Phillip Elliott Parotti (born May 18, 1941) is an American fiction writer and educator.
Parotti was born in Silver City, New Mexico, the son of Abramo Angelo Parotti, a college professor, and Jerry Ann (née Elliott), a pianist. He married Shirley Brewer in 1964. A former U.S. naval officer, Dr. Parotti was a literature professor at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas, from 1972 until his retirement in 2004, and was the fiction editor of ''Texas Review'' from 1976-1984. Besides his novels, he has had short fiction published in a number of periodicals. His three mytho-historical novels, ''The Greek Generals Talk'', ''The Trojan Generals Talk'', and ''Fires in the Sky'', all relate to the Trojan War, and have all been critically well received.
