It's better not to know authors personally, because the real person never corresponds to the image you form of him from reading his books.
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About Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino was a 20th-century Italian author. Italo Calvino was an Italian novelist and short story writer. His best-known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy (1952–1959), the Cosmicomics collection of short stories (1965), and the novels Invisible Cities (1972) and If on a winter's night a traveler (1979). Read more on Wikipedia →
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- Truth — Meditations on honesty, authenticity, and the search for truth