Italo Calvino was an Italian journalist and novelist. He was born in Cuba in 1923 and died in Italy in 1985. Both his parents were acclaimed botanists. Calvino moved from Cuba to Italy when he was two years old. During his lifetime, he became known as one of the most important Italian writers of the 20th century.
As a youth, he joined the Italian Resistance during World War II and put his studies on hold. After the war ended, Calvino returned to the University of Turin to study literature. His experience in the Italian Resistance inspired two of his first fictional works, The Path to the Nest of Spiders and Adam, One Afternoon, and Other Stories. Both those works were published in the...
