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Lucinda Franks(1946-2021)

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Lucinda Franks was born on 16 July 1946 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She was a writer, known for My Father's Secret War, Whose Child Is This? The War for Baby Jessica (1993) and Frontline (1983). She was married to Robert Morgenthau. She died on 5 May 2021 in Hopewell Junction, New York, USA.
BornJuly 16, 1946
DiedMay 5, 2021(74)
BornJuly 16, 1946
DiedMay 5, 2021(74)
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My Father's Secret War
  • Writer
    Susan Dey, Amanda Plummer, and Michael Ontkean in Whose Child Is This? The War for Baby Jessica (1993)
    Whose Child Is This? The War for Baby Jessica
    6.2
    TV Movie
    • Writer
    • 1993
    Frontline (1983)
    Frontline
    8.6
    TV Series
    • Self - The Daily Beast
    Richard Heffner, Eugene McCarthy, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Jess Phoenix, Alexander Heffner, and Jeffrey St. John in The Open Mind (1955)
    The Open Mind
    8.4
    TV Series
    • Self

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    • Susan Dey, Amanda Plummer, and Michael Ontkean in Whose Child Is This? The War for Baby Jessica (1993)
      Whose Child Is This? The War for Baby Jessica
      6.2
      TV Movie
      • article
      • 1993
    • In-development projects at IMDbPro

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      • Pritzker_interview
    • Born
      • July 16, 1946
      • Chicago, Illinois, USA
    • Died
      • May 5, 2021
      • Hopewell Junction, New York, USA(cancer)
    • Spouse
      • Robert Morgenthau1977 - July 21, 2019 (his death, 2 children)
    • Other works
      Book: " Timeless: Love, Morgenthau, and Me". New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. ISBN-13: 978-0374280802
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      • 1 Article

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      Journalist and author, she is the youngest winner of a Pulitzer Prize.

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