Italian journalist and novelist Matilde Serao died #OTD in 1927.
She was the first woman called to edit an Italian newspaper, Il Corriere di Roma and later Il Giorno. Serao was also the co-founder and editor of the newspaper Il Mattino, and the author of several novels. She never won the Nobel Prize in Literature despite being nominated on six occasions.
Books by Matilde Serao at PG:
https://dev.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/7688