Lucinda Franks is the author of a memoir, "My Father s Secret War". A former staff writer for "The New York Times", she has also written for "The New Yorker", "The New York Times Magazine", and "The Atlantic". She won a Pulitzer Prize for her reporting on the life and death of Diana Oughton, a member of the Weathermen. A graduate of Vassar College, Franks lives in New York City with her husband, the former longtime district attorney for New York County Robert M. Morgenthau.