Alexander Sammartino

Photograph by Jonathan Aprea

About The Author

Alexander Sammartino was born in Rhode Island and grew up in Arizona. His debut novel, Last Acts, won the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award, was chosen as a New York Times Editors' Choice and National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree, and was shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction. He received his MFA from Syracuse University, and he lives in Brooklyn with his wife and cat. He is the 2026–2027 Mary Ellen von der Heyden Fellow at the New York Public Library's Cullman Center.

Books by Alexander Sammartino

Gallo
By Alexander Sammartino
From the award-winning author of Last Acts comes an elegant, hilarious redemption story in which our everyman hero, the aging professional bodybuilder Tom Gallo (the eleventh best bodybuilder in the world, he would clarify), plunges down a destructive path for a last shot at perfecti...
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Last Acts

A Novel

By Alexander Sammartino
A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • Winner of the 2025 New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award • National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree • Shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction • “The rarest of things, an authentically tender portrait of f...
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