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Frances FitzGerald (journalist) was born on 21 October, 1940 in New York City, U.S., is an American journalist and historian. Discover Frances FitzGerald (journalist)'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 83 years old?
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Frances Fitzgerald (born October 21, 1940) is an American journalist and historian, who is primarily known for Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam (1972), an account of the Vietnam War.
It was a bestseller that won the Pulitzer Prize, Bancroft Prize, and National Book Award.
From 1950 to his death in 1967, her father was an intelligence officer with the Central Intelligence Agency, becoming a deputy director.
As a teenager, FitzGerald wrote voluminous letters to Governor Adlai Stevenson of Illinois, her mother's lover, expressing her opinion on many subjects, a reflection of her deep interest in world affairs.
She graduated from Foxcroft School in Middleburg, Virginia, and magna cum laude from Radcliffe College, then a women's college associated with Harvard University.
FitzGerald became a journalist, initially writing for the New York Herald Tribune magazine.
Her grandmother was a prominent activist in the civil rights movement of the 1960s, and from an early age, FitzGerald was introduced to a wide range of political figures.
Her parents divorced shortly after World War II.
She went to South Vietnam in January 1966.
She met Washington Post journalist Ward Just at a party soon after arriving in Saigon and began a relationship with him that continued until she left South Vietnam in November 1966.
She formed a close connection with Daniel Ellsberg who was working as an intelligence officer at the U.S. Embassy.
Unlike many of the male journalists, she did not report on the latest combat operations, but rather focused on the effects of the war on South Vietnamese politics and society.
Her first article titled "The Hopeful Americans & the Weightless Mr. Ky" was published in the Village Voice on 21 April 1966.
She investigated the effects of Operation Masher on South Vietnamese civilians and followed the Buddhist Uprising.
She repeatedly visited the village of Duc Lap, interviewing villagers to write "Life and Death of a Vietnamese Village" which appeared in The New York Times Magazine on 4 September 1966.
Her final story was "Behind the Facade: the Tragedy of Saigon" describing the conditions of refugees who had sought safety in the city and were overwhelming its inadequate infrastructure and funding.
On her return to New York she attended Truman Capote's Black and White Ball with her mother, stepfather and half-sister Penelope Tree on 28 November 1966, which launched Tree's modelling career.
In late June 1967 she met Just in Paris and the two then spent July and August writing at Glin Castle owned by her distant relative Desmond John Villiers FitzGerald, Knight of Glin.
She flew back to Washington in late July to attend her father's funeral and then returned to Glin.
In October Just sent her a birthday letter advising that he had got married.
Just's book, To What End, written at Glin, did not mention FitzGerald by name.
In October 1967 she was introduced to Paul Mus who was visiting professor at Princeton University.
Mus' book Sociologie d'une Guerre had informed her writing on Vietnam.
In 1968 she signed a contract with the Atlantic Monthly Press for a book about the Americans and Vietnam.
Mus became a mentor to her until his death in 1969.
In late 1969 she was awarded residency at the MacDowell Colony and began a relationship with fellow resident writer Alan Lelchuk.
At the end of the residency she lived with Lelchuk in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he worked as an assistant professor at Brandeis University.
Following Mus' death, John McAlister and Richard H. Solomon acted as advisers on FitzGerald's book.
In January 1970 she met with Henry Kissinger to discuss Richard Nixon's Vietnam policy.
Later in 1970 she was visited by Daniel Ellsberg who discussed his misgivings about the war.
In June 1971 she submitted the completed manuscript to her publishers.
She returned to Saigon in September 1971 and while there began a relationship with Kevin Buckley, the Saigon bureau chief for Newsweek.
Her book Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam was serialised in five parts in The New Yorker in its newly-created "Annals of War" series starting in July 1972 earning her a Special Front Page Award.
Fire in the Lake was met with great acclaim when it was published in August 1972 and won the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, the Bancroft Prize for history, and the U.S. National Book Award in Contemporary Affairs.
The book cautioned that the United States did not understand the history and culture of Vietnam and it warned about American involvement there.
She returned to South Vietnam in early 1974 one year after the signing of the Paris Peace Accords and twice crossed over into Vietcong controlled territory, filing stories for The New York Times and the Atlantic Monthly.
She travelled to Hanoi in late 1974 and stayed in North Vietnam into early January 1975, writing a 23-page article for the New Yorker.
FitzGerald has continued to write about history and culture: her published books include America Revised (1979), a highly critical review of history textbooks published in the United States; Cities on a Hill (1987), an analysis of United States urban history compared to ideals; Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War (2000), a Pulitzer Prize finalist; and Vietnam: Spirits of the Earth (2002).
In 1987, FitzGerald received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement presented by Awards Council member Robert K. Massie.