14: Italian-(and)-American

A conversation with Edoardo Ballerini, Italian and American narrator and actor. A two-time winner of the Audiobook Publishers Association’s Best Male Narrator Audie Award, Edoardo has recorded nearly 300 titles, from classic works by Tolstoy, Dante, Kafka, Whitman and Camus, to best-sellers by James Patterson and David Baldacci. We discuss growing up bicultural, ways in which being Italian and American is different from being Italian-American, and how his career as an actor and as a narrator were both influenced by his biculturalism, albeit in very different ways.