[1] Rocco was born to a Franco-Italian family and grew up in Kenya.
[2] Rocco is the Administrator of the International Booker Prize[2][3] and she is on the board of directors for the Edinburgh International Book Festival.
[1] In 2003, she published a book called The Miraculous Fever-Tree: Malaria and the Quest for a Cure That Changed the World about the discovery of quinine, which was the BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week.
[5][6] In 2021, Rocco was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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