Alessandro D'Avenia (born 2 May 1977) is an Italian writer, teacher and screenwriter.

[1][2] his book White as milk, red as blood, which led to the film of the same name.

At the age of 14, he attended the Liceo Classico “Vittorio Emanuele II” of Palermo where he met Pino Puglisi, his teacher of RE.

After graduation, Alessandro D'Avenia moved to Roma to attend Sapienza University of Rome where he's got a degree in Classic Letters.

In 2010, D'Avenia published his first best-seller book, White as Milk, Red as Blood.