Francine Brevetti, a native of San Francisco, is a longtime journalist who started her writing career in the late 1970s with America's oldest daily, The Journal of Commerce. Then she moved to Hong Kong where she freelanced for almost 13 years as a business writer, intent on witnessing the reversal of sovereignty to the People's Republic of China in July 1997. From 1985 to 1997 she contributed to American, British, Australian and Asian English-language dailies, magazines and trade journals, mostly on matters of finance, foreign trade and travel. During that time she wrote a guidebook to China and traveled often to the mainland and throughout Southeast Asia.
In 1997, she returned to San Francisco where she still lives. She secured a commission to write the history of America's oldest Italian restaurant, Fior d'Italia. The book "The Fabulous Fior -- over 100 Years in an Italian Kitchen" sold well and is now out of print. (But it is available on Amazon.com). She worked as a business reporter for the Oakland Tribune from 1998 to 2008. She has been writing clients' biographies for several years and conducts workshops teaching people how to write their own.
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