Joe Giampaolo

Biography

Joe Giampaolo was born in Rome, Italy, and moved to Canada as a teenager. He studied philosophy at York University. He speaks Italian and English and studied French, Spanish, Latin, and ancient Greek. Joe has a passion for fountain pens, mountain bikes, cooking, travelling, and the theatre. He lives in Toronto with his family and their two dogs, Suka and Buddy.

Joe writes both fiction and non-fiction books about 19th-century England. In "The Hampshire Stories Series: Essays," the author covers the history, traditions and literature of England in the 1800s. In "The Hampshire Stories Series: Novellas and Short Tales," a reader will find delightful Regency romances, Victorian dramas, gothic tales and ghost stories. All of Joe's books have appeared on various Amazon Top 100 Bestseller Lists in the USA, the UK, Canada and Italy.

Joe's favourite authors are Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, Gustave Flaubert, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Dickens, and Thomas Hardy.

Joe has published six books and they are all available on Amazon. A few of them are also available in hundreds of bookstores worldwide.