Luce d’Eramo was born in 1925 in Reims to an Italian family and she spent the childhood in France.
At the age of fourteen, she returned to Italy and lived in the grandmother’s hometown of Alatri, where she began high school.
This new reality, a small rural village so far from the modernity she had known in Paris, fed a feeling of rootless-ness that will stay with her in the following years, affecting her whole life.

At the beginning of World War II, her father began working for the Air Force and the family moved to Rome.
Here Luce completed high school and enrolled in the Faculty of Letters at the University of Rome, but within a short time, her life would radically change.
After the fall of Fascism, her father joined the Republic of Salò and Luce followed her family to Bassano del Grappa.

At that time, the news about mass deportations and concentration camps began to leak out, shaking her values and beliefs.
From that moment on, she set out on a difficult and complex human path that would lead her to break with the fascist ideals supported by her family with which she had grown up.

Therefore, Luce decided to personally verify the truthfulness of what she had heard: she left her family and went to work as a factory worker in Germany.
The ruthless reality Luce came across in the labor and concentration camps, of which she had never been aware until then, brought her to completely reject her now old ideas and embrace the fight against the Nazis.

The tough experiences she went through in that time would have implications not just on a philosophical and moral level.
In 1945, Luce was in Mainz when, while she was helping a family blocked under the rubble, a wall crumbled leaving her paralyzed for the rest of her life.

After the war ended, Luce returned to Italy and spent some time in a hospital where she met her future husband. From their marriage, which ended a few years later, was born their son Marco.
In Italy, Luce also resumed her university studies, graduating in both literature and philosophy, but mainly, she devoted her life to writing.