{{short description|American journalist, novelist and photographer (1946–1996)}} {{No footnotes |date=February 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2014}} {{Infobox writer | name = Joseph Torchia | caption = | birth_date = December 15, 1946 | birth_place = Johnsonburg, Pennsylvania, U.S, | death_date = {{death date and age|1996|4|22|1946|12|15}} | death_place = Napa, California, U.S. | occupation = Journalist, novelist, photographer | movement = | genre = Novel | notableworks = ''The Kryptonite Kid'' | influences = | influenced = | spouse = | relatives = }}
'''Joseph Torchia''' (December 15, 1946 – April 22, 1996) was an American journalist, novelist and photographer. In the late 1970s, he worked as a reporter for ''The Palm Beach Post'', the ''San Francisco Chronicle'' and the ''San Francisco Examiner''.
Torchia was born in Johnsonburg, Pennsylvania, where he graduated in 1964 (Johnsonburg High School). After his studies at the University of Florida (1968) he spent two years in the Peace Corps (1968–1970). After having left journalism, Torchia owned a photography studio during the last fifteen years of his life.
==Works by Torchia== * ''The Kryptonite Kid'' (1979) [https://www.amazon.com/Kryptonite-Kid-Joseph-Torchia-ebook/dp/B0154U301G/ref=sr_1_1?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.Q6CIqXkBoad12_Ey8_ScYZGoTK1YXofluYEg3dYN1Wl5OMF13VHpYX7p1bDcVHJXRGcbehyZ040AzIlpxQ_P2_7_DZJICjl-n6eYQBczJbKl9KjCXNTpGVCAaOEw_lgxg7Y1EKo3XnyqTu3UML5sgeIyDN The Kryptonite Kid (Kindle edition)] * ''As If After Sex'' (1983) [https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08RY73FMK?ref=KC_GS_GB_US As If After Sex (Kindle edition)] * ''The Edible Variety'' (posthumously published 2021) [https://www.amazon.com/Edible-Variety-Joseph-Torchia-ebook/dp/B08RY3RSYH/ref=sr_1_1?crid=CI7ZPGFJSHEE&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.IQixj7NjaqJ5DVfixWf0lA5va49ec7yjUeLNr5D8imbR51vhxIfvBjP8DyfFc8QMdXVpmrD-ybTlFYPXyxagyQHIU5YtvzK3fQ1evYYsF0wJLkkvQ3UG9W25bCzz4Tcxw1cFvlof The Edible Variety (Kindle edition)] * ''Purgatory, PA.'' (posthumously published 2021) [https://www.amazon.com/Purgatory-PA-Joseph-Torchia-ebook/dp/B08RZCJSDG/ref=sr_1_1?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.IzfYWD0BSZiC4FvUHCq3Tg.-H0bHdsEKIje6sV9p0eKhg57bkFdpWIYZKqZ582bOKo&dib_tag=se&keywords=purgatory+PA&qid=1740752971&s=digital-text&sr=1-1 Purgatory, PA. (Kindle edition)] * "First Communion" – a short story (''Gay Sunshine Journal'', no 47, 1982, pp. 90–104) * "Inside Flannery O'Connor" - an article published in ''The Flannery O'Connor Bulletin'' Vol. 25 (1996-97), pp. 81-102 (22 pages) [https://www.jstor.org/stable/26669949?workspaceFolderId=e5922cb0-7b08-464f-ae89-0dac142a9240&orderBy=updatedOn&orderType=desc&index=0&seq=1 [link to the article on JSTOR<nowiki>]</nowiki>]
==External links== *[https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/OBITUARY-Joseph-Torchia-2985082.php Obituary in the San Francisco Chronicle (Wednesday, April 24, 1996)] *[http://www.eons.com/blogs/entry/1437676-KRYPTONITE-KID-3-years-too-late-a-book-review Review of 'The Kryptonite Kid' by Jack Veasey] *[http://fictioncircus.com/news.php?id=588&mode=one The 'Kryptonite Kid' – A Review by S. Future] *[https://www.noblemania.com/2014/02/the-kryptonite-kid-1979-novel-involving.html “The Kryptonite Kid” (1979 novel involving Superman) - interview with author’s family] *[https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8wd41d1/dsc/#dsc-1.2.9 Guide to the Joseph Torchia papers at Stanford University]
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