Frances fitzgerald biography
Frances fitzgerald biography
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Frances FitzGerald (journalist)
American journalist and historian
For other people named Frances FitzGerald, see Frances FitzGerald (disambiguation).
Frances FitzGerald (born October 21, 1940)[1] is an American journalist and historian, who is primarily known for Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam (1972), an account of the Vietnam War.
It was a bestseller that won the Pulitzer Prize, Bancroft Prize, and National Book Award.
Early life and education
Frances FitzGerald was born in New York City, the only daughter of Desmond FitzGerald, an attorney on Wall Street, and socialite Marietta Peabody.[1] Her grandmother was a prominent activist in the civil rights movement of the 1960s,[2] and from an early age, FitzGerald was introduced to a wide range of political figures.[3] Her parents divorced shortly after World War II.
From 1950 to his death in 1967, her father was an intelligence officer with the Central