Friday, July 30, 2021

Books: ORIANA FALLACI

One of the most infamous journalists and authors of the twentieth century, Oriana Fallaci covered Hollywood, politics, and feminism. She interviewed the top international political figures of her generation, including Khomeini, Gaddafi, Indira Gandhi, and Kissinger, while writing bestselling novels, reporting from the front lines of several wars, and balancing love affairs and heartbreak.

More than a decade after her death, Other Press has published a groundbreaking biography ORIANA FALLACI: The Journalist, the Agitator, the Legend about her star-studded, yet ironically lonely life, out soon in paperback. With unprecedented access to personal records, in-depth research of archival documents, and unpublished testimonies of family, friends, and colleagues, author Cristina de Stefano shines a light on the remarkable story of the Italian journalist. Beginning with Fallaci’s childhood, enlisting in the Italian Resistance in Florence, de Stefano pieces together the life of an iconoclastic figure whose meteoric rise to fame was then followed, surprisingly, by near total obscurity at the time of her death. On each page of this landmark biography, Oriana Fallaci dazzles as an inspiring and controversial woman who defied the codes of reportage, and established the “La Fallaci” style of interview.