Sandro Gerbi was born in Peru in 1943 and since 1948 he has lived in Milan, where he earned a Law degree in 1967. A couple of years later, he started a career in financial journalism, switching only in 1990 to contemporary history. Until 2010, he contributed to the cultural pages of the main Italian newspapers (La Stampa, Corriere della Sera, Il Sole 24 Ore). In 1999, he published his first book (Tempi di malafede, Einaudi), which one year later won the important “Comisso Prize”. Furthermore, his subsequent books (mainly biographies) have received eminent literary prizes. One of his last works – Reluctant Jews – has been translated into English by the Centro Primo Levi Editions, New York.