Lucinda Franks
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Lucinda Franks is a former staff writer for The New York Times, and she has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, and The Atlantic. Franks is also a winner of the Pulitzer Prize, for her reporting on the life and death of Diana Oughton, a member of The Weathermen, an anti-Vietnam war terrorist group,[1] winning the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1971 together with Thomas Powers.[2] A graduate of Vassar College class of 1968, Franks discovered that her father had been a secret agent during World War II, and wrote a book about it, My Father's Secret War: A Memoir, in 2007. She lives in New York City with her husband, former longtime District Attorney for New York County Robert M. Morgenthau.
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- ^ Lucinda Franks
- ^ "National Reporting". The Pulitzer Prizes. http://www.pulitzer.org/bycat/National+Reporting. Retrieved 2008-10-05.
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- Interview on My Father's Secret War
- A film clip "The Open Mind - America's Days of Rage (1994)" is available for free download at the Internet Archive [more]
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