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Profile in courage; _Oriana Fallaci's interviews _were the paradigm _of fearless journalism.(Biography)

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| December 01, 2006 | Di Giovanni, Janine | COPYRIGHT 2006 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Janine Di Giovanni

In 1985, when I first saw this photograph of Oriana Fallaci-or La Fallaci, as she referred to herself-I was a student at the Iowa Writers' Workshop: a displaced East Coast girl, unhappy in the cornfields among my cutthroat fellow students. I remember staring at Fallaci's surly expression, her dark nail varnish and burning cigarette, and thinking she was beautiful. Her deep-set eyes had a lived-in look: She saw the world for what it was and did not give a damn how it regarded her back.

Seeing this sophisticated Italian, I realized how out of place I was in Iowa. At 23, I had not lived enough to have strong material for fiction. ...

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