Seeking Sicily: A Cultural Journey through Myth and Reality in the Heart of the Mediterranean is the title of John’s next book, a travel narrative that captures Sicily and its various cultures through his eyes and the eyes of Sicilian authors of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, most notably Leonardo Sciascia (1921-1989) of Racalmuto, province of Agrigento.
John Keahey has written four books about Italy, all published by Thomas Dunne Books: A Sweet and Glorious Land, Venice Against the Sea, and Seeking Sicily. He is an amateur historian with a particular interest in the lands of the Mediterranean Sea and areas surrounding the Black Sea. John is an Idaho native, reared in the once-small community of Nampa. He was a reporter and news editor for The Salt Lake Tribune for twenty-two years. He worked for a handful of small newspapers in Idaho and Utah and at United Press International in Salt Lake City. For one fifteen-year period away from his first love, journalism, he served as a spokesman for the University of Utah Health Sciences Center and for the energy company Questar Corp. He holds history and marketing degrees from the University of Utah. John is married to Connie Disney, a freelance book designer. John has a son and a daughter.