Eraldo Affinati, a writer and teacher, was born in Rome in 1956. Among his books, all edited by Mondadori, we remember Campo del sangue (1997); Un teologo contro Hitler. Sulle tracce di Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2002); La città dei ragazzi (2008); Peregrin d’amore. Sotto il cielo degli scrittori d’Italia (2010); Elogio del ripetente (2013); L’uomo del futuro. Sulle strade di don Lorenzo Milani (2016).
He founded, together with his wife Anna Luce Lenzi, Penny Wirton, an Italian school for immigrants.