Roberto Perrone (1957 - 2023) was born in Rapallo and has lived in Milan for many years. He wrote about sports, food and travel for Corriere della Sera.

He wrote the following novels: Zamora (2003), La lunga (2007), Averti trovato ora (2008), La ballata dell’amore salato (2009), Occhi negli occhi (2011), La cucina degli amori impossibili (2013), Manuale del viaggiatore goloso (2015), La seconda vita di Annibale Canessa (2017), L'estate degli inganni (2018), L'ultima volontà (2019). He was also the author of Numero 1 (2008), the biography of Gigi Buffon, former goalkeeper and captain of the Italian national football team. In 2022 Un odore di Toscano was published (Premio Iolanda). His most recent novel is La vita che non voglio (2023). In 2024 his first novel, Zamora, has come out in a new edition by HarperCollins. The same Zamora has been turned into a movie directed by Neri Marcorè, that came out in 2024.