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(1956-2019) Memoirist. Lucette Lagnado was born in Cairo, Egypt, and died in Manhattan, New York. She and her family emigrated from Paris to New York in the early 1960s.

Full Name

Lucette Lagnado

Locations

Kings

Author's Timeline

Unknown

OTHER

Ms. Lagnado graduated from New Utrecht High School in Brooklyn, New York.

Unknown

RESIDENCE

Ms. Lagnado lived in Sag Harbor, New York.

1956

BIRTH

Lucette Matalon Lagnado was born in Cairo, Egypt, on September 19, 1956.

1960

RESIDENCE

Ms. Lagnado and her family moved to Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, New York, in the early 1960s.

1977

OTHER

Ms. Lagnado received a bachelor's degree in English and French literature from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, in 1977.

1991

LITWORK

Children of the Flames: Dr. Josef Mengele and the Untold Story of the Twins of Auschwitz
William Morrow & Co
688096953
Nonfiction written with Sheila Cohn Dekel.

2007

LITWORK

The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit
Ecco
978-0060822125
Memoir.

2011

LITWORK

The Arrogant Years: One Girl's Search for Her Lost Youth, From Cairo to Brooklyn
Ecco / HarperCollins
978-0061803673
Memoir.

2019

DEATH

Lucette Lagnado died in a hospital in Manhattan, New York, on July 10, 2019.

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