Geronimo Stilton is also the pen name of Elisabetta Dami, an author who co-owns Edizioni Piemme, an Italian Publishing House that started publishing the Geronimo Stilton Books in the year 2000. The Geronimo Stilton Books are the most popular children’s books in Italy, even outselling Harry Potter!  Scholastic has published the English translations of the Geronimo Stilton Books since 2004 and continues to release them every few months.  A graphic novels series is also available and a cartoon series will be released in 2010.
Born in New Mouse City, Mouse Island, Geronimo Stilton is Rattus Emerituas of Mousomorphic Literature and of Neo-Ratonic Comparative Philosophy. For the past twenty years, he has been running The Rodent's Gazette, New Mouse City's most widely read daily newspaper.
Stilton was awarded the Ratitzer Prize for his scoops on The Curse of the Cheese Pyramid and The Search for Sunken Treasure. He has also received the Andersen 2000 Prize for Personality of the Year. One of his bestsellers won the 2002 eBook Award for world's best ratlings' electronic book. His works have been published all over the globe.
In his spare time, Mr. Stilton collects antique cheese rinds and plays golf. But what he most enjoys is telling stories to his nephew Benjamin.