Ron Vitale was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Influenced by the likes of Tolkien, Margaret Atwood, C. S. Lewis, and Philip Pullman, he began writing at an early age, creating short fiction for his classmates. In the fall of 2008, he published his fantasy novel Dorothea's Song as an audiobook on Podiobooks and for sale in the Amazon.com Kindle store, and in 2011 he published Lost, the first book in the Cinderella's Secret Diaries series, in 2012 the second book in the series, Stolen, was published and in 2014 the third book in the series, Found: Cinderella's Secret Diaries, was