1933 – She published her first story, I Bambini in the magazine Solaria.

1938 – She married Leone Ginzburg, and used the name Natalia Ginzburg on most subsequent publications.

1942 – Her first novel, however, was published under the pseudonym Alessandra Tornimparte, during Fascist Italy’s most anti-semitic period.

1944 – She and her husband secretly went to Rome and edited an anti-Fascist newspaper, until Leone Ginzburg was arrested and murdered in jail.

1940 – Ginzburg spent much of working for the publisher Einaudi in Turin.

1947 – Her second novel was published.

1950 – She married Gabriele Baldini, a scholar of English literature.

1969 – Her second husband died.

1964 – She played the role Mary of Bethany in Pasolini’s The Gospel According to St. Matthew.

1983 – She was elected to the Italian Parliament as an Independent.

1991 – Died on the 7th of October in Rome.