Who is the true author of the famous graphic novel 'Geronimo Stilton'?

Elisabetta Maria Dami

Dami is the daughter of publisher Piero Dami (who founded Dami Editore in 1972). At the age of thirteen, she started in the publishing world as a proofreader for the family business and at nineteen she wrote her first short stories. As an adventure lover, she got her aircraft pilot and parachutist licenses aged 20, and at 23 she traveled around the world on her own and completed a famous survival course at the Outward Bound School in Maine, in the United States. Some of Dami's other adventures include taking part in a rally in the Sahara desert and crossing Africa from north to south in an off-road vehicle; she raced the 100-km Sahara ultramarathon and ran three New York marathons (in 2002, 2003, and 2017)

The creation of Geronimo Stilton.

In 1990, Dami found out that she could not have kids. After this, she decided to volunteer in a children's hospital and help sick kids.

As she cared for the sick children, Dami decided to write adventure stories that featured Geronimo Stilton's mouse as the protagonist. These stories became a famous publishing sensation in Italy and internationally. For a while, I worked as a volunteer in a hospital, and it was there, almost by chance, that I invented Geronimo Stilton … It was at the time when Patch Adams taught the world that children need to laugh to get better. So I started to make up funny stories in which the protagonist was a clumsy mouse called Geronimo Stilton. He would get involved in all sorts of entertaining adventures, full of funny events and twists in the plot, that children found compelling. Since then Geronimo Stilton's stories have been translated into 49 languages and have sold more than 161 million copies all over the world.