Nick Mur, postmodern author (or like somebody would prefer to define him, post-twentiethcentury), born in 1983, took a diploma in classical studies in 2002; He also obtained a BA in Classical Arts (2005) and a MA in Archaeology (2007). He had his debut into bookshops in the winter of 2002, when he published his first novel: Le chiavi scarlatte (The Scarlet Keys), written when he was 16 years old. His literary activity proceeds incessantly with the drawing up of many other novels, presently published both in Italy and in the United States.