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Lucinda Franks

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American journalist

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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.

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1971Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting

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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.

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Journalist
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Lived 1946 to 2021 · aged 74
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