Frank Viviano
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Frank Viviano (born Francesco Paolo Viviano in Detroit, Michigan in 1947) is a Sicilian-American journalist and foreign correspondent. He attended De La Salle High School in Detroit and the University of Michigan.
He traveled widely for many years as the at-large foreign correspondent for the San Francisco Chronicle, covering events across Asia and Europe, from the overthrow of Philippines dictator Ferdinand Marcos to the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 to civil war in the Balkans.
In addition to his work for the Chronicle, his articles have appeared in newspapers and magazines internationally, including Mother Jones and National Geographic, most recently writing about the Kurds in National Geographic's January 2006 issue.
His books include Dispatches from the Pacific Century (1993) and Blood Washes Blood: A True Story of Love, Murder, and Redemption Under the Sicilian Sun (2001).
He is currently Staff Writer on the Barga Italy based online news site [1]
