Lucinda Franks
Lucinda Laura Franks (July 16, 1946 – May 5, 2021) was an American journalist, novelist, and memoirist. Franks won a Pulitzer Prize in 1971 for her reporting. She became the first woman to win a Pulitzer for National Reporting, and the youngest person ever to win any Pulitzer.[1] She worked as a staff writer at The New York Times (1974 to 1977) and The New Yorker (1992 to 2006).
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 Franks at the Miami Book Fair International, 2014 | |
| Born | Lucinda Laura Franks July 16, 1946 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Died | May 5, 2021 (aged 74) |
| Education | Vassar College (BA, 1968) |
| Spouse(s) | Robert Morgenthau (m. 1977; died 2019) |
Franks died of cancer on May 5, 2021, in Hopewell Junction, New York, aged 74.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Seelye, Katharine Q. (May 6, 2021). "Lucinda Franks Dies at 74; Prize-Winning Journalist Broke Molds" (in en-US). The New York Times. . https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/06/business/media/lucinda-franks-dead.html. Retrieved May 6, 2021.
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