Lucette Lagnado
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Lucette Lagnado | |
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Born | Lucette Matalon Lagnado September 19, 1956 |
Died | July 10, 2019 | (aged 62)
Nationality | American |
Education | B.A. Vassar College |
Occupation | Journalist |
Spouse |
Douglas Feiden (m. 1995) |
Lucette Matalon Lagnado (September 19, 1956 – July 10, 2019) was an Egyptian-born American journalist and memoirist of Syrian origin.[1] She was a reporter for The Wall Street Journal.
Biography
Lagnado was born to a
In September, 2011, she published a companion volume to "Sharkskin" which tells the story of Lagnado's mother, Edith. "The Arrogant Years: One Girl's Search for Her Lost Youth, from Cairo to Brooklyn" (Ecco/HarperCollins) juxtaposes the author's own coming of age in New York with that of her mother in Cairo, revealing how the choices she made meant both a liberation from Old World traditions and the loss of a comforting and familiar community. The book was described by the publisher as an epic family saga of faith and fragility.[5]
Personal life
In 1995, she married journalist
Lagnado died on July 10, 2019, at the age of 62.[8]
Bibliography
- Children of the Flames: Dr. Josef Mengele and the Untold Story of the Twins of Auschwitz
- The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit
- The Arrogant Years
Honors and prizes
- Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature
- Mike Berger Award
- Newswomen's Club of New York Front Page Awards (Three time winner)
- Columbia Journalism Review "Laurel"
- Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting, finalist 2004
References
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-12-10.
- Nieman Reports. President and Fellows of Harvard College. Retrieved 17 March 2018.
- ^ "2008 Sami Rohr Prize Winner". Jewish Book Council. e107 Powered Website. 12 February 2008. Archived from the original on 8 December 2008. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
- Jerusalem Post. April 2008. Retrieved 12 July 2019.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Pollak, Steve (14 February 2008). "Interview with Lucette Lagnado, winner of Sami Rohr Prize". Jewish Literary Review. Mom-Mom and Baubie Productions. Archived from the original on 9 July 2010. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
- ^ "Lucette Lagnado". UCLA Anderson School of Management. Archived from the original on 24 October 2007. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
- New York Times. December 31, 1995. p. 1039. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
- ^ Silow-Carroll, Andrew (July 11, 2019). "Lucette Lagnado, whose prize-winning memoir recalled her family's Egyptian-Jewish past, dies at 63". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Retrieved July 11, 2019.