Merullo was born in Boston and raised in the working-class city of Revere, Massachusetts. He had a scholarship to Exeter Academy and graduated in 1971, attended Boston University for two years, transferred to Brown University and graduated from Brown in 1975, then earned a Master's there --- in Russian Studies --- in 1976. He's been a carpenter, a cab driver, a Peace Corps volunteer in Micronesia, a college professor, worked for many months on cultural exchange exhibits in the former USSR and has traveled to 49 US states and across the northern hemisphere. He currently lives in Massachusetts with his wife Amanda and their two daughters. He can be reached at [email protected].

Books by Roland Merullo

The Light Over Lake Como

by Roland Merullo - Fiction, Historical Fiction, Holocaust

It’s 1945. The Nazi occupation of Italy is in its closing days. Unmoored in a foreign land, Sarah Zinsi heeds a rumor that her village on the Lake Como shore has been liberated. Clutching her young daughter, Sarah navigates the arduous mountain trek back home to be with Luca Benedetto, the father of her child. A resister to the end, Luca has one last assignment: assassinate Mussolini, the man who destroyed everything Luca cherished and who forced the love of his life to flee. But for Sarah and Luca, the pull of love, the will to survive and the promise of a new family are greater than any odds against them.