- Lectured at the University of Chicago, Yale University, Harvard University and Columbia University.
- Prior to the 1968 Summer Olympics, she was shot three times by Mexican armed forces, but managed to survive.
- Spent the last years of her life in New York fighting against breast cancer, but decided to die in her native Florence (September 2006).
- Wrote a series of critical and controversial books about Islam and Arab culture, most notably "La rabbia e l'orgoglio" (The Rage and The Pride, 2001).
- Italian author and journalist interviewing many political leaders and international celebrities such as Henry Kissinger, Lech Walesa, Willy Brandt, Federico Fellini, Golda Meir, Deng Xiaoping and Sean Connery. She was the first woman from a Western county, who was allowed to interview Ayatollah Khomeini.
- Reporter and war correspondent known as a tenacious interviewer. Among her subjects: Yasser Arafat, Henry Kissinger, Ayatollah Khomeini, Golda Meir, Indira Gandhi, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and Muammar Gaddafi.
- Joined the anti-fascist Resistance as a teen.
- Was wounded during student protests against the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico.
- Former war correspondent in Vietnam.
- Journalist.
- Highly successful and controversial Italian journalist, author, and political interviewer.
- As a young journalist, Fallaci interviewed many internationally known leaders and celebrities, including Henry Kissinger, the Shah of Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini, Lech Walesa, Willy Brandt, Ali Bhutto, Walter Cronkite, Omar Al-Khafaji, Federico Fellini, Sammy Davis Jr., Deng Xiaoping, Cao Ky Nguyen, Yasser Arafat, Indira Gandhi, Archbishop Makarios, Golda Meir, Nguyen Van Thieu, Haile Selassie and Sean Connery.
- Fallaci began her journalistic career in her teens, becoming a special correspondent for an Italian newspaper in 1950. Starting in 1967, she worked as a war correspondent in Vietnam, the Middle East, and in South America. For many years, Fallaci was a special correspondent for the political magazine L'Europeo, and wrote for a number of leading newspapers and magazines.
- During the 1968 Tlatelolco massacre prior to the 1968 Summer Olympics, Fallaci was shot three times, dragged down stairs by her hair, and left for dead by Mexican armed forces.
- During her infamous 1972 interview with Henry Kissinger, she got him to agree that the Vietnam War was a "useless war" and compare himself to "the cowboy who leads the wagon train by riding ahead alone on his horse." Kissinger later wrote that it was "the single most disastrous conversation I have ever had with any member of the press."
- Twice received the St. Vincent Prize for journalism, as well as the Bancarella Prize in 1971 and the Viareggio Prize in 1979. She received a D.Litt. from Columbia College in Chicago. She lectured at the University of Chicago, Yale University, Harvard University, and Columbia University. Her early writings have been translated into 21 languages.
- Was called "our most celebrated female writer" by Ferruccio De Bortoli, former director of the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera. The Los Angeles Times once described her as "the journalist to whom virtually no world figure would say no."
- Went to Hollywood in her early 20s, where she wrote about stars such as Clark Gable. She published her first book in 1954, "The Seven Sins of Hollywood." Orson Welles, who had become a friend, wrote the preface.
- Her uncle was famed Italian journalist Bruno Fallaci.
- Received much criticism in her later years for writing about what she called the Muslim invasion of Europe and Islamic assault on Western values. However, she also won praise in some quarters for daring to articulate the visceral fears that Europeans and Americans confronted.
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