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Author Description Italo Calvino was born in Cuba and grew up in Italy. He was a journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the <i>Our Ancestors</i> trilogy (1952-1959), the <i>Cosmicomics</i> collection of short stories (1965), and the novels <i>Invisible Cities</i> (1972) and <i>If On a Winter's Night a Traveler</i> (1979).<br /><br />His style is not easy to classify; much of his writing has an air reminiscent to that of fantastical fairy tales (<i>Our Ancestors, Cosmicomics</i>), although sometimes his writing is more "realistic" and in the scenic mode of observation (<i>Difficult Loves</i>, for example). Some of his writing has been called <i>postmodern</i>, reflecting on literature and the act of reading, while some has been labeled magical realist, others fables, others simply "modern". He wrote: "<i>My working method has more often than not involved the subtraction of weight. I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to remove weight from the structure of stories and from language.</i>"<br />

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