Awards & Winners

Lucinda Franks

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, winning the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1971 together with Thomas Powers. 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.

Awards by Lucinda Franks

Check all the awards nominated and won by Lucinda Franks.

1971


Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting
(For their documentary on the life and death of 28-year-old revolutionary Diana Oughton)