Gianni Papa is the son of a junior school teacher and an Air Force officer. He has always had a passion for writing, ever since he was a child, but he only managed to complete his first book - this one - at 43 years of age, after the birth of a son with autism and the subsequent breakdown of his marriage stifled any creative flair for years.
He is now a special needs teacher in the Italian state school system and lives in foggy, polluted northern Italy, where he dreams of changing the world and - above all - continuing to write.