Writing Archives - Lucinda Franks

#AskLucinda LIVE Q&A on Facebook

Posted on November 9, 2015 by Lucinda Franks • 0 Comments

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2015, 8:30-10:00 PM ET
#AskLucinda – LIVE Q&A on FACEBOOK at facebook.com/LucindaLFranks

Cathartic Expressive Writing with Pulitzer Prize Winner Lucinda Franks – Come to the Lucinda Franks Writer page between 8:30-10:00 PM (ET) WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, for the second installment of #AskLucinda. Lucinda will discuss the long term impact of War on Veterans, PTSD, and benefits of healing through creative expression.

Come join in on the conversation between 8:30-10:00 PM (ET), WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11: Facebook.com/LucindaLFranks

Chicago Memories

Posted on October 19, 2015 by Lucinda Franks • 0 Comments

As this week’s visit to Chicago approaches, I reminisce about how my Illinois background has had such an impact on my life. There are so many connections. My parents met over a pair of stockings at Marshall Field’s, the Chicago landmark where Mom was working at the stocking counter after the war. (Dad naturally had… Continue Reading

Together In DC Area Tonight, Tuesday, September 29

Posted on September 24, 2015 by Lucinda Franks • 0 Comments

Tuesday, September 29, 2015, 7:00 PM Books-A-Million Washington, DC Area 1451 Chain Bridge Road, McLean, VA Ms. Franks and Mr. Morgenthau will be in the Washington, DC area, appearing together for a reading and book signing at Books-A-Million, 1451 Chain Bridge Road, McLean, VA Directions to Books-A-Million, McLean, VA are available HERE. Share the news… Continue Reading

TIMELESS in Paperback Today

Posted on August 18, 2015 by Lucinda Franks • 0 Comments

As Farrar Straus & Giroux releases the paperback of ‘Timeless’ in stores today, I feel extremely humble. Not everyone gets their hardback made into paper and I am very lucky. But there is a rather sad finality to it. It is as though I’ve had an abnormally long pregnancy and finally given birth to the… Continue Reading

Censoring Free Speech in Journalism?

Posted on August 6, 2015 by Lucinda Franks • 0 Comments

Have you noticed that debates on some conservative TV stations feature well-dressed, articulate politicos and weak, shapeless liberals? Do you notice that the volume is slightly lowered when the liberal speaks? In turn, you can find just the opposite state of affairs on liberal channels. Censorship, if more subtle than in some other nations, is… Continue Reading

Posted on July 28, 2015 by Lucinda Franks • 0 Comments

We were in the elevator when Bob leaned over and unexpectedly kissed me on the lips. “I think the book has made us closer,” he said. “It’s been a springboard that’s brought us back to the beginning, when we first fell in love.” This was the beginning of a short but startling observation. After three… Continue Reading

Manuscript Minding

Posted on July 21, 2015 by Lucinda Franks • 0 Comments

How hazardous it is to write about someone you love. In ‘Timeless,’ I was determined to create an honest picture of Bob Morgenthau, but I also had an interest in keeping our marriage intact. Therefore, I insisted he read every draft of my memoir, even though I had kept journals of our 38 years together.… Continue Reading

Story of Diana – The Making of a Terrorist – Part 4 of 5

Posted on July 3, 2015 by Lucinda Franks • 0 Comments

This post is the fourth in a five-part series, originally published by United Press International on September 18, 1970, for which Lucinda Franks and Thomas Powers received the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting. (Link to PARTS I, II, or III) The final nine months of Diana Oughton’s life were absorbed almost entirely by the disintegration of the Students for… Continue Reading

Fathers and Husbands

Posted on June 18, 2015 by Lucinda Franks • 0 Comments

As Father’s Day draws near, I think of how my father and my husband are alike. Here is a passage from my new book, Timeless: Love, Morgenthau, and Me: “I believe that love is no accident, no whisper from a random universe. It comes from deeper channels of longing and recognition: a collection of tiny lights… Continue Reading

Eleanor and Elinor

Posted on June 16, 2015 by Lucinda Franks • 0 Comments

Eleanor Roosevelt and Elinor Morgenthau, wife of FDR’s Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr., were fast friends and that was partly due to the similarity of their natures. They were women of their time and had iron fists inside velvet gloves. While with their famous husbands, they stepped back to let them take center stage, but… Continue Reading

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