Career
Born in Florence, Livi got a degree in Romance studies with Gianfranco Contini, then in 1958 she wrote her first novel, Gli scapoli di Londra ("The London bachelors"). In the sixties she started her career as a journalist working for several newspapers and magazines, notably Louisiana Nazione, Epoca and L"Europeo. She then gradually decided to leave the journalism to devote himself to writing, as a novelist and an essayist.
