Joseph Ruggiero
- Writer
- Producer
- Executive
Joseph F. Ruggiero was born and raised in South Philadelphia. He has
spent his life working as a psychotherapist. He is an avid reader,
walker, and family man. A member of the Secular Franciscan Order, Ruggiero and his wife Bernadette have five children, and nine
grandchildren. He has founded a most successful drug and alcohol
treatment facility , Self Help Movement, INC. where he has worked for
more than 40 years as the CEO. Dr. Ruggiero retired in 2010.He pursues
his passion as a fiction writer believing deeply in the healing power
of fiction: to uplift, inspire, entertain the soul, and bring about a
change of values. He has written two novels, A Rose On Ninth Street,
and Raggabooty. He has adopted his first novel into a screenplay, A
Rose On Ninth Street, which was shot in South Philadelphia, and
Bristol, PA. The film will be coming out in the future. Ruggiero is working on his third
novel, Chrystal Umbrella, a serial murder in the gay community of
Philadelphia.