Luigi Guarnieri was born in 1962 and lives in Rome. Doctor of Human Letters at University of Pisa and graduated at the Experimental Cinematography Centre in Rome, he wrote many theater and radio plays. He is the author of novels translated in many countries: among them L’atlante criminale. Vita scriteriata di Cesare Lombroso (Mondadori 2000), Tenebre sul Congo (Mondadori 2001), La doppia vita di Vermeer (Mondadori 2004), La sposa ebrea (Rizzoli 2006), I sentieri del cielo (Rizzoli 2008), Una strana storia d’amore (Rizzoli 2011), Il sosia di Hitler (2014).