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Frances FitzGerald

American journalist and author

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    Born 1940
  • Awards
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Updated 2026-07-12

Frances FitzGerald is an American journalist and historian, who is primarily known for Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam (1972), an account of the Vietnam War. It was a bestseller that won the Pulitzer Prize, Bancroft Prize, and National Book Award.

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Source confidence55.0
Completeness70.0
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