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Canadian Author Biography

Canadian best-selling author Nino Ricci was born in 1959 in Learnington, Ontario to a family of six children. As a student he studied in Florence, Italy, at York University in Toronto, and Concordia University in Montreal. After studies he began to write.

His first novel, "The Lives of Saints" which is part of a trilogy began as his master's thesis in university. Ricci did not know whether his piece was publishable but when it was finished he gained international fame. He then wrote the second novel of the trilogy, "In the Glass House " which received rave reviews from London writing critics and his final novel, " Where She Has Gone " did just as well.

He became director, then president of the Canadian Center of International PEN, a human rights organization that dealt with freedom of expression. Along with being head of a respectable organization Ricci began to teach all over the world including in Canada, and Nigeria.

Ricci's trilogy novels......

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