Enrico Lamet was born Erich Lifschutz on May 27, 1930, into an upper-middle-class Jewish family.On March 18, 1938, five days after the Anschluss, when German troops had marched into Vienna, Lamet's family fled to Italy, where they spent most of the next twelve years. Just before World War II ended, the family settle in Naples, so, as Enrico loves to say, "we could continue enjoying the areal bombing being meted out this time by the German Luftwaffe." In 1950 the family moved to the United States, where Lamet continued his engineering studies at the Drexel Institute of Technology in Philadelphia. Deciding that business would be more in keeping with his personality, Enrico embarked on a business career. Over the years he became involved in a variety of enterprises until his eventual retirement as a CEO in 1992.Fluent in German, Italian, English, Spanish, and Yiddish, Lamet served as an interpreter for the U.S. State Department and taught Italian for several years. Lamet has studied piano and voice and, to this day, enjoys performing Neapolitan songs.Lamet has three children, two stepchildren, and seven granddaughters. They were the reason this book was written. He and his wife spend their time in Pittsfield, Mass.