Lacey Fosburgh

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Lacey Fosburgh (3 October 1942 – January 11, 1993) was an American journalist, author, and academic. She is best known for her bestselling non-fiction book, Closing Time: The True Story of the Goodbar Murder (1977), which was nominated for the 1978 Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime book.

Her second book, Old Money (1983), a novel which was understood to be largely autobiographical, about growing up in a wealthy, troubled family, was also a bestseller. Her third book was India Gate (1991), a family saga and mystery involving the children of American expatriates in India.

In addition to her books, Fosburgh was a reporter for the New York Times, mostly in the San Francisco bureau. She covered a number of major stories for the Times, most notably the Patty Hearst/Symbionese Liberation Army case in 1974-1976 and the Peoples Temple case in 1978. She was also one of the few journalists to interview reclusive author J. D. Salinger.

Fosburgh also taught in the University of California, Berkeley School of Journalism.

She was married to activist and author David Harris from 1975 until her death from breast cancer in 1993 at age 50.

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Closing Time: The True Story of the Goodbar Murder (1977) (ISBN 0-440-01371-2)
Old Money (1983) (ISBN 0-385-15310-4)
India Gate (1991) (ISBN 0-517-58493-X)