Gabrielle Marks

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Gabrielle Marks, author of Palermo Story, was born and raised in London. She studied for the stage at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and moved to Italy in 1964 to teach English at the Berlitz School of Languages in Palermo. She has been a freelance journalist for a number of Italian newspapers and journals, and is currently a teacher and translator. She has two grown children and lives in Palermo with her husband, a Sicilian.