Lucinda Franks

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About the Author

Lucinda Franks is the author of the memoirs My Father's Secret War and Timeless: Love, Morganthau, and Me. A former staff writer for The New York Times, she has also written for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, and The Atlantic. She won a Pulitzer Prize for her reporting on the life and death of Diana Oughton, a member of the Weathermen. A graduate of Vassar College, Franks lives in New York City. Her husband, the former longtime district attorney for New York County Robert M. Morgenthau, died in 2019.