1. (1867–1936)

2.  born in Girgenti (Agrigento), Sicily, Italy  wealthy family   Antonietta Portulano  playwright, novelist and short story writer

3.  studied philology at Rome and at Bonn Real Istituto di Magistere Femminile at Rome.  1897 to 1922 - he was professor of aesthetics and stylistics at the Real Istituto di Magistere Femminile at Rome. Novelle per un anno.  He wrote a great number of novellas which were collected under the title Novelle per un anno.

4.  Il fu Mattia Pascal (1904) [The Late Mattia Pascal]  I vecchi e i giovani (1913) [The Old and the Young]  I vecchi e i giovani (1913) [The Old and the Young]  Si gira (1916) [Shoot!]  Uno, nessuno e centomila (1926) [One, None, and a Hundred thousand].

5. Maschere nude/Naked Masks  1918 and 1935- He wrote a large number of dramas (50 plays) (Maschere nude/Naked Masks);  Right You Are (If You Think You Are)  To Clothe the Naked  Henry IV

6. “theatre within the theatre” Six Characters in Search of an Author

7.  Trilogy; "the theater in the theater," Each His Own Way (1924) and Tonight We Improvise (1930)  illusion and reality  directors, actors, characters, spectators, and critics.

8.  Important innovator in drama  touring the world (1925–27) with his own company, the Teatro d’Arte in Rome.

9.  1928, Pirandello spent his remaining years in frequent and extensive travel.   died Dec. 10, 1936, Rome

11. http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/ 1934/pirandello-bio.html http://www.britannica.com/biography