Robert  Golino is a retired business owner.   He has a BA in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Riverside. He also completed a year of study at the University of Padova, Italy, and two years of graduate study in Medieval Italian Literature at UCLA.  Robert is happily married, with has three sons and three granddaughters. He is an avid reader of many genres from Dante to Kafka, and from Ray Bradbury to Andy Weir. His favorite quote is "A great story can overcome bad writing, but great writing can never overcome a bad story"