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His best-selling novels, which span and mix various genres such as Young Adult , Dark Fantasy , modern Fables , Erotica and Pop Culture , are published in Italy , the U.S. , Japan , Germany , and Spain . Giovanni Arduino has written under many different pseudonyms such as Joe Arden and Jonathan Snow , but has mostly used his real name since 2003 for novels as Chiudimi le labbra (Lain Books, Rome , 2005) and Mai come voi (Sperling & Kupfer, Milan , 2004). As an editor (senior editor first and editor-at-large since the late Nineties at Sperling & Kufer Editori, Milan , Italy ) and scout, Giovanni Arduino introduced Italian readers to an eclectic, quirky, and highly personal mix of foreign authors such as Jim Carroll , Nicholas Sparks , Mark Leyner , Poppy Z. Brite , Ben Sherwood , Marilyn Manson , Rosemary Altea , Sherman Alexie , James O'Barr , Francesca Lia Block , Neale Donald Walsch , Stephen Chbosky and many others, not to mention a vast array of media-related products, ranging from Pokemon and Beverly Hills 90210 to Hamtaro , Dawson's Creek , Desperate Housewives and Buffy The Vampire Slayer . External links --- Giovanni Arduino ( Caprino Veronese , October 16 , 1714 – Venice , March 21 , 1795 ) was an Italian Geologist who is known as the "Father of Italian Geology ." Arduino was a Mining specialist who developed possibly the first classification of geological time, based on study of the geology of northern Italy . In 1735, he divided the history of the Earth into four periods: Primitive, Secondary, Tertiary and Volcanic,or Quaternary. -- |