About the Author Behind Cambridge Street
Steven Decker is a lifelong Chicago area resident, a father, a grandfather, recently a great-grandfather, and a military veteran. “I always loved to write,” he said in a recent interview. “During my career, I wrote training manuals, marketing materials, and short stories for fun, but I always wanted to create a novel. Now I have the time to write and an important message to share.”
Decker grew up in a large, thriving Sicilian family on the north side of Chicago. His first novel, Cambridge Street, is crafted around many of the events that deeply affected his Sicilian immigrant grandparents, mother, aunts, and uncles during the Roaring Twenties.
“They were dirt poor, and the prejudice against Italians—especially Sicilians—at the time was outrageous. Life was tough—they learned to be tougher.”
Steve went on to say, “I wrote Cambridge Street to honor the memory of the millions of immigrants who came to America at the turn of the last century. The bravery of those people, many who arrived at our shores with only a few dollars and who spoke little English, was enormous. We must not let their sacrifices be forgotten."