Luciana Peverelli

Luciana Peverelli (16 February 1902 - 5 August 1986) was an Italian writer, journalist and screenwriter. She was also known under the pen names Greta Granor, Anna Luce and Mariely.

Life and career Born in Milan, Italy, the daughter of a music critic, Peverelli started her career as a playwright, but the commercial failure of her play La donna senza nome (1926) prompted her to abandon theatre and focus on literature. In her prolific career, she wrote over 400 novels.

During her career, Peverelli collaborated with various newspapers including Il Tempo and La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno, and with numerous women magazines, such as Lei, Amica, Novella and Grand Hotel, and was editor of the children's magazine Il Monello and of the film magazine Cinema Illustrazione. In 1947 she wrote the texts of the first fotoromanzo, Menzogne d'amore. In the 1940s and 1950s she also collaborated to the screenplays of several films, starting with Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia's Violets in Their Hair (1942). She was also a translator.

Personal life An anti-fascist, Peverelli had a long relationship with footballer and resistenza member . She later married and divorced the Briton Philip Ashley-Carter.