Massimo Gramellini (born 2 October 1960) is an Italian writer and journalist working at Corriere della Sera.

At the age of nine, he lost his mother, Giuseppina Pastore, to suicide; seriously ill and depressed, she threw herself from a building's fifth floor.

Nobody wished to reveal the details to the young Massimo, and his father told him that she had died of a sudden heart attack.

[1] Gramellini has published books and articles about Italian society and politics, an almanac about 150 years of the history of Italy (with Carlo Fruttero), and two series of stories about the football team Torino FC.

In 2010, he published his first novel, L'ultima riga delle favole ("The Last Line of Fables"), which sold over 250,000 copies in Italy and was translated into several languages.