Lucinda Franks

Wellesley High School Author: Lucinda Franks (c. 1964)

            Lucinda was a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, novelist, and memoirist.  She won the 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 worked as a staff writer at The New York Times and The New Yorker, and published four books:  Waiting Out a War:  The Exile of Private John Picciano; Wild Apples; My Father’s Secret War: A Memoir; and Timeless:  Love, Morgenthau, and Me.