Lucinda Franks In Manhattan In 2007 Editorial Image

In this monochrome rendering, Lucinda Franks arrives at the Vanity Fair Party for the 6th annual Tribeca Film Festival in lower Manhattan on April 24, 2007. She was a renowned writer, journalist, author, and screenwriter. Franks was widely published in the New York Times, The Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Talk, and The New Yorker, and was a trailblazing journalist and foreign correspondent with UPI. She married Robert M. Morgenthau, Manhattan`s longtime District Attorney, in 1977 at the age of 30 when he, a widower, was nearly twice her age. She was a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, alerting the public to the significant dangers of Red Dye Number 2, a much-used food coloring that was linked to cancer. She was among the first to debunk the belief that alcoholism was caused by a lack of willpower. She pointed out the strong biochemical causes of alcoholism. Her Pulitzer was for an in-depth examination of the radical Weather Underground group of the late 1960s and 70s. One of her books, `My Father`s Secret War: A Memoir` traced her father`s hair-raising spy activities behind enemy lines during World War Two. Franks wrote a book entitled `Timeless: Love, Morgenthau, and Me` in 2014 about her unlikely, remarkable, and long, happy marriage. Lucinda Franks died on May 5, 2021 in Hopewell Junction, New York, from cancer, at the age of 74.