Frances FitzGerald (journalist)

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Frances FitzGerald

Frances FitzGerald (born October 21, 1940 in New York City)^[1] is an American journalist and historian, who is primarily known for Fire in the Lake (1972), an acclaimed journalistic account of the Vietnam War.

Early life

FitzGerald's parents were New York lawyer Desmond FitzGerald and socialite Marietta Peabody. As a teenager she wrote voluminous letters to Governor Adlai Stevenson expressing her opinion on many subjects, a reflection of her deep interest in world affairs.^[2] She graduated magna cum laude from Radcliffe College.

Career

FitzGerald's first book Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam (1972) was met with great acclaim when it was published, and remains one of the most notable books about the Vietnam War. For it she won the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and the U.S. National Book Award in Contemporary Affairs.^[3]^[4]

FitzGerald's subsequent published works include America Revised (1979), a highly critical review of history textbooks; Cities on a Hill (1987); Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War (2000), a Pulitzer finalist;^[5] "Rewriting American history", a short article in The Norton Reader; and Vietnam: Spirits of the Earth (2002).

FitzGerald's writing has appeared in The New Yorker, 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 International PEN.

Personal life

FitzGerald is married to James P. Sterba, a former writer for The Wall Street Journal; they live in New York City and Maine, which Sterba featured in his 2003 book Frankie's Place: A Love Story.^[6]

References

↑ books.google.com
↑ Her letters are in the Adlai Stevenson Collection at Princeton University.
↑ "General Nonfiction". Past winners and finalists by category. The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2012-03-17.
↑ "National Book Awards – 1973" (web). National Book Awards. 2007. Retrieved 2008-03-03. .
There was a "Contemporary" or "Current" award category from 1972 to 1980.
↑ "History". Past winners and finalists by category. The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2012-03-17.
↑ Frankie's Place A Love Story by Jim Sterba. jimsterba.com. (This is the home page 2012-03-17.)

External links

Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction (1962–1975)

The Making of the President, 1960 by Theodore White (1962) The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman (1963) Anti-intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter (1964) O Strange New World by Howard Mumford Jones (1965) Wandering Through Winter by Edwin Way Teale (1966) The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture by David Brion Davis (1967) Rousseau and Revolution, vol. 10 of The Story of Civilization, by Will and Ariel Durant (1968) So Human an Animal by Rene Jules Dubos/The Armies of the Night by Norman Mailer (1969) Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence by Erik H. Erikson (1970) The Rising Sun by John Toland (1971) Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911–45 by Barbara W. Tuchman (1972) Fire in the Lake by Frances FitzGerald (1973) The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker (1974) Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard (1975)

Complete list (1962–1975) (1976–2000) (2001–2025)

Vietnam War correspondents

Print journalists	R. W. Apple Peter Arnett Michael Birch Peter Braestrup Malcolm Browne Wilfred Burchett Dickey Chapelle Robert Elegant Gloria Emerson Bernard Fall Frances FitzGerald Sylvana Foa Joseph Galloway Martha Gellhorn Al Gore David Halberstam Michael Herr Seymour Hersh Marguerite Higgins Takeshi Kaikō Stanley Karnow Donald Kirk Steve Kroft John Pilger Gareth Porter John Sack Murray Sayle Jonathan Schell Sydney Schanberg Neil Sheehan Alexander Shimkin John Steinbeck IV Matthew V. Storin Richard Tregaskis Kate Webb

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Broadcast journalists	Martin Bell Ed Bradley Charles Collingwood Walter Cronkite Murray Fromson Bernard Kalb Peter Kalischer Douglas Kiker Steve Kroft Charles Kuralt George Lewis Ike Pappas Julian Pettifer Bill Plante Dan Rather Clete Roberts Morley Safer Bob Simon Richard Threlkeld Joe Schlesinger

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