Primo Levi (1919–1987) was born and lived his entire life in Turin, Italy, with the exception of the years 1944–45, when he was captured as an anti-Fascist partisan, deported to Auschwitz, and then released into war-torn Europe. He was the author of such acclaimed books as Survival in Auschwitz (If This Is a Man), The Periodic Table, and The Drowned and the Saved.