Lucinda Franks

Lucinda Franks
Franks at the Miami Book Fair International, 2014
Born	1946 (age 70–71)
Residence	New York City
Nationality	United States
Occupation	writer
Known for	Pulitzer Prize winner
Spouse(s)	Robert M. Morgenthau
Children	Joshua Franks Morgenthau Amy Elinor Morgenthau
Parent(s)	Lorraine and Tom Franks

Lucinda Franks (born 1946) is a former staff writer for The New York Times, and she has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, and The Atlantic. 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.

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 War II, and wrote a book about it, My Father's Secret War: A Memoir, in 2007. Her second memoir is about her marriage: Timeless: Love, Morgenthau, and Me (2014).

In 1977, she married former longtime district attorney for New York County, Robert M. Morgenthau, a widower and member of the Lehman family. They have two children: Joshua (born 1984) and Amy (born 1990). They live in New York City.

In 1979, the Supersisters trading card set was produced and distributed; one of the cards featured Franks's name and picture.