His Family
Banfield grew up on a farm in Bloomfield, Connecticut, and attended the University of Connecticut, where he studied English and agriculture.
His wife, Laura Fasano Banfield, learned Italian as a child, and helped her husband with his book about a poor village in southern Italy (The Moral Basis of a Backward Society). She also collaborated with Harvey Mansfield on a translation of Machiavelli’s Florentine Histories. She died in 2006.
Banfield’s son, Elliott, is an artist/designer/cartoonist in New York City; his daughter, Laura, is founding partner of law firm Hoguet, Newman, & Regal, LLP and the mother of three daughters, Laura Kosar, Helen LaCroix, and Marie Hoguet.
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