Home › Authors › Jim DeFilippi Jim DeFilippi b. 1943 ยท 3 books Biography Jim was born and raised in Duck Alley, a small section of Long Island's Manhasset. He is a Viet Nam era veteran and taught public schoo for thirty-one years. He has been living and writing on a dirt road in northern Vermont since 1974. Books by Jim DeFilippi BUF 2011 Duck Alley 1999 Speedo 1989