She has provided freelance services to such prestigious publications as The Atlantic, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, The Nation, Talk Magazine, and the New York Times Magazine and Book Review.
NEW YORK, NY, August 02, 2017 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Lucinda Laura Franks has been included in Marquis Who's Who. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
A celebrated journalist and author, Ms. Franks is supported by more than four decades of industry experience. Over the years, she has provided freelance services to such prestigious publications as The Atlantic, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, The Nation, Talk Magazine, and the New York Times Magazine and Book Review. At the start of her career, she worked as a journalist for the New York Times, specializing in politics, investigative reporting and in depth feature writing, and United Press International, covering youth affairs and civil strife in Northern Ireland.
Ms. Franks is a graduate of the prestigious Vassar College, through which she holds a Bachelor of Arts. Her professional affiliations include the American PEN Club, for which she served on the membership board, the Edna St. Vincent Millay Society, and Writers Room Inc., for which she formerly served as president. Notably, she has written numerous books, including "Waiting Out a War: The Exile of Private John Picciano," "Wild Apples," "My Father's Secret War," and most recently "Love, Morgenthau and Me." Ms. Franks has been honored for her professional accomplishments with a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1971, the Easter Seals Award, a National Headliners Award, and a New York Newspaper Writers Association Award. She has twice won the Society of the Silurians Award for Excellent Writing. She has also had the honor of inclusion in the 25th edition of Who's Who in the East and 10 editions of Who's Who of American Women.
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