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(1946-2021) Journalist, author. Lucinda Franks was born in Chicago, Illinois, and died in Hopewell Junction, New York. She wrote several books, including “My Father’s Secret War: A Memoir.”

Full Name

Lucinda Franks

Locations

New York

Author's Timeline


1946

BIRTH

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

1968

OTHER

Ms. Franks graduated from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, in 1968.

1971

OTHER

Ms. Franks was working for United Press International when she won a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting in 1971.

1974

LITWORK

Waiting Out A War: The Exile of Private John Picciano
Coward, McCann & Geoghegan
0698104633 / 978-0698104631
Nonfiction.

1991

LITWORK

Wild Apples
Random House
0394575784 / 978-0394575780
Novel.

2007

LITWORK

My Father's Secret War: A Memoir
Miramax
140135226X / 978-1401352264
Memoir.

2014

LITWORK

Timeless: Love, Morgenthau, and Me
Sarah Crichton Books
0374280800 / 978-0374280802
Memoir.

2021

RESIDENCE

Ms. Franks live on Manhattan's Upper East Side.

2021

DEATH

Lucinda Franks died in Hopewell Junction, New York, on May 5, 2021.

2021

INTERMENT

Lucinda Franks was interred at Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Hawthorne, New York.

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