Thinking in people I would love to meet,I realise that most of that people are autors of books, and yes, most of them are dead. So let´s just talk about a one of them. About these that are dead I think that Oriana Fallaci has a special place somewhere in mine hear, maybe because in her book she is always there, you can read something that she had written and in a few pages if not inmediatly you know that it´s her doing even thought that iniatialy you didn´t know that what you where reading was made by her. I love how her writting style, it´s a very straigforwarth style, she doesn´t have hair in her tong when she write, she is sincere, and she can express perfectly what she is feeling. It´s a bit weird but you can feel what she is feeling. in one word her style is humanized, it´s like earth, you can touch it, feel it, eat it. 
Jeje, I have only written about her style but nothing about her. She was born in Italy in 1929, when she was a child she helped the antifacist faction that her father was part. Later she become a journalist, she had written a lot about the war and later about the islam, her first works were about vietnam and the vietcong. She made a lot of interviews, most of her subjets were important people like Henry Kissinger, Golda Meir, Arafat, revolusionist, people that today we catalog as terrorists. Fallaci didnt only write articles, or about war, She write also novels some of them based in her own live and others were ficcion. 
The first book I had read form her has "letter to a child never Born", the first time I had that book in mine hand I had 4-5 years, obviusly I couldn´t read it but the cover of that book was greepy and gave me goosebumbs, later when I learned how to read I had a first attemp but my mother took the book and hide it, she say that I was to young for that book and that I shouldn´t read it. things that are taboo ussualy have a sort of magnetic force, years later, I think I had 14 or 15 years I found it again without searching it. I don´t know if I can say that I loved or liked the book, It´s a excelent, schoking book and a "must to read" book, also is one of my favorite books. other of here work are "interview whith history", "the force of reason", "rage and pride" and many others. 
Maybe I can´t meet her but I think that if one day I travel to Italy I would visit her tomb, and left some cigaretts.