About the Author

In college, Battaglia developed a lifelong love of literature. Stories engulfed him. This led him to earn a master’s degree in English literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In the intervening years, Battaglia had various careers, including one as a TV producer-director at the PBS station in Madison, Wisconsin, where he produced and directed national and international programs, one being the English version of the acclaimed Japanese animated series, Astro Boy. Strangely, it was a bigger hit in Australia than it was in the United States. After a successful television career, Battaglia decided to chuck it all and try to make it as a Hollywood screenwriter. While writing every day, he supported himself as a story analyst for International Creative Management and Corsair Pictures. However, Battaglia showed little interest in commercial success. His independent projects centered on the lives of Abraham Lincoln and Herman Melville, hardly blockbuster features.

If six years in LA taught Battaglia anything, it was his passion for writing. And armed with that discovery, he went back to Madison and earned a doctorate in English Composition and Rhetoric. No doubt, his happiest job was as a college English teacher at UW-Madison and UW-Green Bay. For twenty-five years, he was able to offer his writing, literature, and film students an endless supply of insights and bad jokes.

Battaglia is now retired. And under the pen name of C. B. Anthony, he now has the freedom to write as he pleases, starting with his first novel, Angel Wings: A Modern Fairy Tale. A second work, Allergic: A Teenage Tale, has recently followed.