Frances FitzGerald

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Frances FitzGerald
Frances FitzGerald

See also Frances Fitzgerald (Irish politician)

Frances FitzGerald (born October 21, 1940) is an American journalist and author. She is primarily known for her acclaimed journalistic account of the Vietnam War.

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[edit] Biography

FitzGerald was the daughter of New York lawyer Desmond FitzGerald and socialite Marietta Peabody. As a teenager, she wrote voluminous letters to Senator Adlai Stevenson expressing her opinion on many subjects, a reflection of her deep interest in world affairs.[1]

[edit] Career

FitzGerald is best known for her book, Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam (1972), which was met with great acclaim when it was published and remains one of the most notable books about the Vietnam War. She was awarded both a Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for the book.[2][3]

FitzGerald's subsequent volumes include America Revised, a highly critical review of high school history textbooks (1979); Cities on a Hill (1987); Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War (2000); and Vietnam: Spirits of the Earth (2002).

FitzGerald's writing has also appeared in The New Yorker, and the New York Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, Architectural Digest, and Rolling Stone. She serves on the editorial boards of The Nation and Foreign Policy, and is vice-president of PEN.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Her letters are in the Adlai Stevenson Collection at Princeton University
  2. ^ Pulitzer Prize Winners: General Non-Fiction (web). pulitzer.org. Retrieved on 2008-02-28.
  3. ^ National Book Awards - 1973 (web). National Book Awards (2007). Retrieved on 2008-03-03.

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Vietnam War correspondents
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