Maggie's Farm

"I sat at the typewriter for the first time and fell in love with the words that emerged like drops, one by one, and remained on the white sheet of paper... every drop became something that if spoken would have flown away, but on the sheets as words, became solidified, whether they were good or bad..."

A recent Opinion Journal piece about her. Piece in Giselle here. Our blog pal Dino places this atheist on the path to paradise. Her Wikipedia entry here. She has been a hero to many. A "brutal interrogator."

Brains, spirit, beauty, hutzpah, grace, toughness, and writing talent. Not bad with a camera, either, but a Lady of Letters. A loss for the Italy which persecuted her, and for the world.