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	Marco Di Tillo

Marco graduated in Psychology having written a thesis on "The New Italian Comics, from Birth to Linus." His writing career has included stories for comics published by Comic Art -- The Wizard of Mondadori, Il Giornalino, Il Giorno, Fotografare, Paese Sera, Il Messaggero, Flash. Lanciostory, I Quaderni del Sale. He created many original characters such as "Yeti", "Hans and Chica," "Hud Kelly", and "Piero". Marco has also written biographies that included famous jazzmen, movie stars, and football players. In 1978, Marco  worked as a writer for Radio 1 Rai, where he wrote scripts for many broadcasts of variety, quiz and original radio plays, including "The Fall Jazz," "Love Means," "What Day was that Day?", "The Spoiler", "Flip Open" " An Invention Called the Disc"," Music and Words for a Holiday," "My son, Nicola," and " A History of Jazz. " In 1983 he began writing for the Rai television. There, he authored "Hello Italy," "Open Space," " Afternoon on the Two," " Forte Fortissimo,"  "Saturday Zecchino," "Scruples," "The tales of Topo Gigio," "Beauty," "Christmas Gifts," "Men," and  "A Sparkling Day."  Later, for TV-Montecarlo, he wrote the children's  program  "Zap Zap." He began directing motion pictures in 1989  with  "Operation Parrot," which he wrote with Piero Chiambretti and Claudio Delle Fratte.  In 2000, he wrote and directed, "A Year in the Country." His novels include, "The Young Knight " (Einaudi publisher.) and "Three Boys and the Sultan" (Mursia publisher)  His illustrated fairytales include, "Mummy Christmas" and "Mummy Christmas and the Pirates" ( Mursia).   For the travel industry he wrote "Rome for Two" and "Walkin'  Rome." More recently, he has written detective stories starring the benevolent but determined police inspector Marcello Sangermano. The series includes 'Destini di sangue', "Dodici Giugno" and "Il Palazzo del freddo". A new inspector, Marco Canepa, is featured in a series that began in July 2018. It includes "Tutte le strade portano a Genova" and "Omicidio all'acquario di Genova" (June 2019). In January 2020, he had published in Italy "Una santa per amica" (Teresa & Me) about his youthful friendship with Mother Teresa.  For details about Marco's extensive portfolio of works, please go to  www.marcoditillo.com  His works in English with Augustine Campana include the historical thriller 'The Other Eisenhower' (Webster House) and, as of November 2020, "The Dollfuss Directive" (Skyway Press).  Please use the Books menu item above for more information about these exciting novels.

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