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About the Author

My name is Lina Decrescenzo. I was born and grew up in South Italy. I moved to Rome where I study nursing and worked in local hospitals. After graduated, I joined the international volunteering and served for four years in Chad and Ethiopia. In 1989, during a vacation in USA, I met my husband John and after 6 weeks we married.

In year 2000, after a long and tedious process with the United State Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), I became a USA citizen. John and I lived in New Jersey, I worked for the local Hospital, then in Public Health. We lived happily raising two daughters.

At the time of the ‘Empty Nest’ after both girls moved out, John and I retired in the beautiful Southwest Florida to continue our love story. John passed away two and half years into our new chapter of life and twenty-five years of marriage.

I had to restart my life and find who and what I was.

My childhood passion for writing rekindled while reliving my life. I wrote the first book ‘Love the Missing Word’ an autobiography, ISBN 9781512360721, published on 11-25-2015, LLCN 2021902248 to liberate myself from the mixed feelings against my mother still harboring in my heart.

‘Life is good; writing makes it better’ became my motto. English is my second language and as such it is difficult for me to avoid typos, misspelled words and even grammar mistakes, but despite all that I won’t stop writing. After all, this is me, this is how I write and this is how I live.

I wrote six other books:

‘In the Dead Heart’ A memoir of my service in Chad. ISBN 9781518866951 on 11/25/2015.

‘The Fire of the Shanty ‘ A fiction novel based on true story and events. ISBN 9781539180975, on 11/2/2016.

‘Stepping on the High Land’ A memoir of my service In Ethiopia. ISBN 9781545551578, on 4/22/2017.

‘Opinions’ A personal analysis of many problems afflicting the world. ISBN 9781980313816, on 3/16/2018

‘I, the Killer’ A mystery novel tackling the international human trafficking. ISBN 9781984266453 on 1/26/2018

‘See the End’ A mystery novel tackling the accomplishments and defeats at the end of the 		cycle of human life. ISBN 9798664205701 on 7/25/2020

All my books are self published in English and in Italian, live on Amazon and Kindle.