Lucinda Franks arrives at the Vanity Fair Party for the 6th annual Tribeca Film Festival in lower Manhattan on April 24, 2007. She was a renowned writer, journalist, author, and screenwriter. Franks was widely published in the New York Times, The Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Talk, and The New Yorker, and was a trailblazing journalist and foreign correspondent with UPI. She married Robert M. Morgenthau, Manhattan`s longtime District Attorney, in 1977 at the age of 30 when he, a widower, was nearly twice her age. She was a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, alerting the public to the significant dangers of Red Dye Number 2, a much-used food coloring that was linked to cancer. She was among the first to debunk the belief that alcoholism was caused by a lack of willpower. She pointed out the strong biochemical causes of alcoholism. Her Pulitzer was for an in-depth examination of the radical Weather Underground group of the late 1960s and 70s. One of her books, `My Father`s Secret War: A Memoir` traced her father`s hair-raising spy activities behind enemy lines during World War Two. Franks wrote a book entitled `Timeless: Love, Morgenthau, and Me` in 2014 about her unlikely, remarkable, and long, happy marriage. Lucinda Franks died on May 5, 2021 in Hopewell Junction, New York, from cancer, at the age of 74.
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