Dec 31, 2020
PRODUCTIVE YEAR — Former area resident Robert Viola published two books in 2020 — “The Orphan, the Abbey & the Pack” on Feb. 1 and “Revolution” in August.
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CANAL WINCHESTER — As an unusual year comes to a close, a former area resident can nonetheless celebrate an accomplishment — the publishing of not one, but two books in 2020, both of which, he notes, “couldn’t be more different.”
Robert Viola, the son of Gene Viola of Wintersville and the late Mary Jo Viola, published “The Orphan, the Abbey & the Pack” on Feb. 1 and “Revolution” in August.
The first is a young adult book, the other “a much darker tale for grown-ups only,” explained the 1993 graduate of Wintersville High School who earned a bachelor’s of English literature degree at Ohio State University.