Amatore Mille was born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and its surrounding suburbs. Raised within an Italian family, with strong bonds to his old-country grandparents, he played…then worked with his two brothers and sister on the wood-shavings covered ground of the family’s Italian sausage concession at the Wisconsin State Fair. Although long removed from Wisconsin he still, to this day, returns each August to the family and its operation at the Fair. This became the inspiration for the telling of his poignant and humorous memoir, Eleven Days in August: A Chronicle of Summers.

A Reviewer's Choice selection -- Midwest Book Review
"A robust tour" -- Internet Book Watch
"Delightful" -- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
"Great Americana...excellent storytelling" -- Barbara Wilson Sjoholm
"A treasure to be cherished" -- Jim Doyle, Governor, State of Wisconsin