Education
Vassar College.
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Lucinda Franks
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Career
Franks was raised in a Christian family, the daughter of Lorraine and Tom Franks. She was raised in Wellesley, Massachusetts. In 1968, she graduated from Vassar College, after school she moved to London where she reported for United Press International.
In 1973, she was transferred to New York City.
Franks discovered that her father had been a secret agent during World World War II, and wrote a book about it, My Father"s Secret War: A Memoir, in 2007.
Achievements
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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. She is the youngest person to win a Pulitzer.
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Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting
This Pulitzer Prize has been awarded since 1942 for a distinguished example of reporting on national affairs In its first six years (1942-1947), it was called the Pulitzer Prize for Telegraphic Reporting - National.This Pulitzer Prize has been awarded since 1942 for a distinguished example of reporting on national affairs In its first six years (1942-1947), it was called the Pulitzer Prize for Telegraphic Reporting - National.