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Ellen Wulfhorst
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Lucinda Franks
American journalist (1946–2021)
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 on the life of Diana Oughton, a member of Weather Underground. With that award she became the first woman to win a Pulitzer for National Reporting, and the youngest person ever to win any Pulitzer. She published four books, including two memoirs, and worked as a staff writer at The New York Times (1974 to 1977) and The New Yorker (1992 to 2006).
Early life and education
[edit]Lucinda Laura Franks was born on July 16, 1946, in Chicago.[1] She was raised in a Christian family,[2] the daughter of Lorraine Lois (Leavitt) and Thomas E. Franks,[1][3][4] in Wellesley, Massachusetts.[2] Franks attended high school at Beaver Country Day School and graduated from Vassar College in 1968 with a degree in English.[1][5] While at Vassar, she cofounded a chapter of Students for a Democratic Society.[6]
Career
[edit]Franks began work at United Press International (UPI) in London in 1968, where she rose from making coffee to become the bureau's first female journalist.&