# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lucinda-franks
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:35:07.391Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lucinda-franks"
name: "Lucinda Franks"
slug: "lucinda-franks"
description: "Lucinda Laura Franks 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 and The New Yorker."
tagline: "American journalist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Franks%2C_Lucinda_-MBFI.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1946-07-16"
deathDate: "2021-05-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.85
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.282074666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0291674/"
    handle:    "nm0291674"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://lucindafranks.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucinda_Franks"
    title: "Lucinda Franks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%A7_%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%83%D8%B3"
    title: "لوسيندا فرانكس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%A7_%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%83%D8%B3"
    title: "لوسيندا فرانكس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucinda_Franks"
    title: "Lucinda Franks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucinda_Franks"
    title: "Lucinda Franks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14954797"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1790517"
    title: "Lucinda Franks"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump