Born in Florence in 1974, David Leone spent his childhood in Courmayeur, in the Aosta Valley, where he attended linguistic high school, before moving to Washington D.C., where he studied at Georgetown University. Graduated with a degree in Diplomatic Sciences, he now lives abroad and works in the field of information systems and communications.
He has always been a fan of the great classics of world literature. In 2014 his first novel, Confessions of an Italian mama's boy, was published by Mauro Pagliai. Followed in 2015 by Ostrich Feathers (Pagliai), in 2016, The Strange Case of Elia Coen (Noripios), in 2018 by Allah is Great, Florence Burns (Pagliai). Come Dust in the Wind was published in 2020 by Giovane Holden, and later The Seasons of Friendship in 2022 by Mauro Pagliai.