Frank Viviano

Who is Frank Viviano?

Frank Viviano is a Sicilian-American journalist and foreign correspondent. He attended De La Salle High School in Detroit and the University of Michigan.

His journalism career began in 1977. He traveled widely from 1979-1987 for Pacific News Service and several magazines, and from 1988-2002 as the at-large foreign correspondent for the San Francisco Chronicle. He was the Chronicle's Asia correspondent until 1990 and then worked as the Paris bureau chief beginning in 1990. He covered the overthrow of Philippines dictator Ferdinand Marcos, the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, the collapse of the Soviet Union, the rise of terrorism in the Middle East and the civil war in the Balkans.

In addition to his work for the Chronicle, Viviano's articles have appeared in more than 200 newspapers and magazines internationally, including Mother Jones and National Geographic. His most recent was a story about the Kurds in National Geographic's January 2006 issue.

His books, published in 14 countries, include Dispatches from the Pacific Century and Blood Washes Blood: A True Story of Love, Murder, and Redemption Under the Sicilian Sun. He is the author of five other books.