Jeffrey Kennedy is an American with a BA from Stanford University, where he majored in English Literature and minored in Art and Art History, and a Masters in Art and Art History from MIU in Iowa. He has taught in various venues, in both the US and Europe, including the Oxford Institutes Italiani, Rome.He has been living in Europe for the last 30+ years and has authored and co-authored a full range of travel guides and articles for major international publishers. His chosen destinations have included Rome, Naples and many other regions of Italy; San Francisco and Miami and other parts of Florida in his native US; Mallorca, Andalusia and Barcelona in Spain; and parts of Greece and France. In addition, while living in Rome for about 20 years, he had the opportunity to write scripts for audio guides to major museums in Italy, as well as individual exhibitions. Currently, since 1995, he has also worked as a translator for the Italian cinema and television world, rendering screenplays and other materials from Italian into English for numerous productions.Jeffrey is also in the throes of writing a semi-historical novel - an esoteric thriller set on the islands of Capri and Sicily, and in Rome.He currently lives in the South of France, where he has been part of La Missare (la.missare.free.fr) since 2005.