About David Venditta

The Author, David Venditta

As a writer and editor, David Venditta has worked for Allentown’s Morning Call for twenty-eight years. Currently a content editor, he has a long history of experience in writing about the military and veterans’ affairs. His yet-to-be-published Quiet Man Rising chronicles his quest for information about a beloved cousin’s death in Vietnam twenty years after the fact.

An intrepid investigator, Venditta’s in-depth interview with a reclusive Medal of Honor recipient brought new attention to veterans’ affairs. He is also known for his 10-part narrative about a prisoner-of-war, which received a Pennsylvania Associated Press Managing Editors Award for Enterprise Reporting in 2005. His interest in Pennsylvania history led him to be the project editor and one of the writers of a 90,000-word narrative history of Bethlehem Steel Corp., Forging America: The Story of Bethlehem Steel, winner of the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association’s top Keystone Press Award for Special Projects.

Over the past dozen years, he has published about 90 “in their own words” war stories from eastern Pennsylvania veterans. They are part of the permanent collection of the Library of Congress and the National World War II Museum. The stories are available online at  www.themorningcall.com/warstories. In September 2011, The Morning Call published 34 of them in a book, War Stories: In Their Own Words. It earned him the Allentown Arts Commission’s 2012 Arts Ovation Award for Literary Excellence. To order the book, go to https://secure.mcallcommunity.com/store/pages/war-stories.php

A native of Chester County, Venditta graduated from Downingtown High School and received his B.A. in English from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He lives in Allentown with his wife, Mary, an artist and legal secretary.