Bernadette Giacomazzo (born Benedetta Rosalia Giuseppina Giacomazzo, 29 November 1977) is an American journalist, photographer and author. She wrote In Living Color: A Cultural History and The Golden Girls: A Cultural History.
Giacomazzo is the oldest of two children, born in Far Rockaway, New York. Her father, Giuseppe Giacomazzo (1936–2009), was part of the Marseilles Mafia.[1][2][3] Her mother, Anna Maria Natalucci, is the daughter of chef Paolo Natalucci, who had a number of restaurants in New York City in the 1960s and 1970s.[4]
In 2005, Giacomazzo co-wrote Swimming with Sharks with Melissa Deskovic.[5] In December 2022, Giacomazzo released her first poetry chapbook, Aquarius Rising, on Nightingale & Sparrow Press.[6] In February 2023, Giacomazzo released In Living Color: A Cultural History, which is part of Rowman & Littlefield's "Cultural History of Television" book series. The Library Journal gave it a starred review,[7] calling it a "must-read book on the history of a show that molded Black comedy sketches and brings together different threads of social awareness, race, entrepreneurship, comedy, resilience, and bravery in the face of a world not used to seeing "in living color."" Booklist also gave the book a starred review.[8] and was listed at number four in the outlet's Top 10 Arts Books of 2023.[9] In August 2023, Giacomazzo released The Golden Girls: A Cultural History with Rowman & Littlefield.[10]Publisher's Weekly said that "pop culture fans will rejoice" at "Giacomazzo's careful cultural analysis" of "issues that are still salient today.[11]
