Dora Jane "Dodie" Hamblin (1920-1993) was an American journalist, born in Bedford, Iowa, and educated at Coe College and Northwestern University. She joined Life magazine in 1948, first as a researcher and then as a European correspondent, and ran the magazine's Rome bureau from 1956 to 1960. A seasoned reporter, she and Gene Farmer were granted exclusive access to the Apollo 11 astronauts and their families for First on the Moon (1970). After leaving Life that same year she settled in Italy and turned to popular books on archaeology and history (Buried Cities and Ancient Treasures, The Etruscans) as well as her memoir, That Was the Life (1977). She died in Trevignano, Italy, in 1993.