Anthony S. Maulucci, grandson of Italian immigrants, was born in Hartford and grew up in suburban Connecticut.  After attending the University of Connecticut, he moved to Montreal and worked as a freelance journalist, part-time English language teacher, magazine editor, and stage manager for an experimental theatre company from 1971 to 1978.  His only "normal" job was as a full-time writer for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation radio network. He then moved to New York City where he lived and worked as a freelance journalist writing for magazines and contributing weekly reports on contemporary music to  CBC Radio.  Maulucci had always dreamed of living in Greenwich Village, and he was happy in a studio apartment on West 12th Street for a while, but Manhattan was too ferociously active for him — he needed quiet and solitude to write his fiction and poetry, which had becoming increasingly important to him.  He decided to move to New Haven, Connecticut.   In  this small city/college town where he felt like he went to Yale by osmosis, Maulucci wrote short stories, poetry, one-act plays, a short literary novel, and a "commercial novel" about a somewhat naive, bright and stunningly beautiful young woman who drops out of college to become a  fashion model,  is exploited by two very powerful enemies, the lesbian owner of her agency and the publisher of a porno magazine, and ends up being murdered by a disturbed photographer.  He found an established literary agent to represent this book, but when St. Martin's Press expressed an interest and requested that he change the ending so the woman