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Lucinda Franks (Lucinda Laura Franks) was born on 16 July, 1946 in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., is an American journalist (1946–2021). Discover Lucinda Franks's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 74 years old?

Popular As Lucinda Laura Franks
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Age 74 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 16 July 1946
Birthday 16 July
Birthplace Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Date of death 5 May, 2021
Died Place Hopewell Junction, New York, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1946

Lucinda Laura Franks (July 16, 1946May 5, 2021) was an American journalist, novelist, and memoirist.

Lucinda Laura Franks was born on July 16, 1946, in Chicago.

She was raised in a Christian family, the daughter of Lorraine Lois (Leavitt) and Thomas E. Franks, in Wellesley, Massachusetts.

1968

Franks attended high school at Beaver Country Day School and graduated from Vassar College in 1968 with a degree in English.

While at Vassar, she cofounded a chapter of Students for a Democratic Society.

Franks began work at United Press International (UPI) in London in 1968, where she rose from making coffee to become the bureau's first female journalist.

She was initially assigned to cover beauty pageants but went on her own time to Northern Ireland as civil war broke out.

Her supervisor wanted to send a male reporter to replace her, citing UPI policy that female reporters were not allowed to cover war zones, but she persuaded him that the story would be over by the time a male replacement arrived, and she was allowed to continue her work.

1970

On the strength of her work in Northern Ireland, Franks was transferred to New York City in 1970 to work on a story about the Weather Underground, which had accidentally exploded their facility for making bombs and killed several of their members.

1971

Franks won a Pulitzer Prize in 1971 for her reporting on the life of Diana Oughton, a member of Weather Underground.

With that award she became the first woman to win a Pulitzer for National Reporting, and the youngest person ever to win any Pulitzer.

The resulting five-part story, written with Thomas Powers, on the life and death of Weather Underground member Diana Oughton, won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1971.

Then 24 years old, Franks was the youngest person to have won a Pulitzer.

She was also the first woman to win the Pulitzer for National Reporting.

Franks's first book, Waiting Out a War: The Exile of Private John Picciano (1971), tells the story of a deserter in the Vietnam War.

The work was based on reporting Franks had done at UPI.

A review for Kirkus Reviews, calling Waiting Out a War a "book with more integrity than insight", emphasized how unremarkable Picciano's story was.

1973

Franks met Morgenthau in 1973, when she interviewed him for a story about corruption in the Nixon administration.

They had two children.

1974

She published four books, including two memoirs, and worked as a staff writer at The New York Times (1974 to 1977) and The New Yorker (1992 to 2006).

Franks left UPI in 1974, writing on staff at The New York Times for the next three years.

1977

In 1977, Franks married longtime district attorney for New York County, Robert Morgenthau.

1979

One of the Supersisters trading cards, produced in 1979, featured Franks's name and picture.

Franks died of cancer on May 5, 2021, in Hopewell Junction, New York, aged 74.

1991

Franks's next book was a novel published by Random House in 1991 titled Wild Apples.

In it the death of the family matriarch leaves an apple orchard in the hands of rival sisters; a review in Publishers Weekly wrote that "Franks earnestly and perceptively confronts real emotional situations, rendering the sisters' relationship in highly credible fashion."

Late in her father Thomas's life, Franks discovered that he had been a secret agent for the US military during World War II, sent to pose as an officer of the SS and report on a subcamp of Buchenwald.

1992

From 1992 to 2006 she was on staff at The New Yorker.

She also freelanced for New York, The New York Times Magazine, and The Atlantic, among other publications.

1993

She continued to find and report on high-profile stories, like a Michigan custody case where birth parents were seeking to regain custody of a three-year-old placed for adoption as a baby; Franks' New Yorker story was adapted as the 1993 television movie, Whose Child Is This? The War for Baby Jessica.

2007

Franks published a book about this and other discoveries about Thomas, titled My Father's Secret War: A Memoir, in 2007.

The book draws from an extensive series of interviews Franks conducted with her father.

2014

Her second memoir, Timeless: Love, Morgenthau, and Me (2014), is about her marriage to Robert Morgenthau.

In a review for The Wall Street Journal, Moira Hodgkin said, " 'Timeless' reads like a novel", remarking on "the astonishing candor with which Ms. Franks talks about their marital ups and downs," though ultimately more up than down: the book, Hodgson said, was "a long love letter to [Morgenthau]."

2019

Morgenthau died in 2019 at the age of 99.