Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Who is Geronimo Stilton?

ELISABETTA DAMI is the author of the Geronimo Stilton Series
The daughter of publisher Piero Dami (founder of Dami Editore in 1972) Elisabetta got her start in the world of fiction as a proofreader at the family publishing house. At the age of 19 she began to write her first stories. She has assisted sick children as a volunteer ever since she was young and this experience led to the idea of writing adventure stories featuring a mouse, Geronimo Stilton, as protagonist. The character became a hit both in Italy and abroad. It is thanks to this success that she is able to continue to help sick, orphaned and abandoned children.

Elisabetta divides her time between Italy and the town of Sedona, Arizona. She likes to travel and undertake adventurous activities and explorations, such as when she traveled around the world on her own at the age of 23. She has climbed Kilimanjaro, done trekking in Nepal, run a 75-mile marathon in the Sahara Desert as well as two New York City marathons, and done parachute jumps. Some years ago she also earned a pilot's license.


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