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Thomas F. Matta

Goodreads Author

Born

in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, The United States

Genre

Nonfiction, Professional & Technical

Member Since

May 2007

URL

https://www.goodreads.com/tmatta

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Where to begin? To get more than this bio and few stories listed, feel free to check out my blog titled, "The Heart of the Matta" at http:\\tmatta.wordpress.com.
I was raised as one of five children from just outside Pittsburgh in a working-class steel mill town. Poor schools, violent neighborhood and alcoholic father made for more than one's share of challenges. But like many that came before and after, I made it out. My brothers weren't so fortunate at first. Both dropped out of high school, but managed to complete their doctorates in the summer of 2004 as well. What are the odds that three scruffy boys would make it out and end up with such an education? We've been meeting trying to figure this out. Links to some recent newspaper articl ...more