Frances FitzGerald (journalist): Difference between revisions

FitzGerald became a journalist, initially writing for the ''[[New York Herald Tribune]]'' magazine. She went to [[South Vietnam]] in January 1966.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.francesfitzgerald.net/bio.htm|title=Biography - Frances FitzGerald|website=www.francesfitzgerald.net|access-date=2018-07-21}}</ref> She met [[Washington Post]] journalist [[Ward Just]] at a party soon after arriving in [[Saigon]] and began a relationship with him that continued until he was wounded on 8 June 1966 while covering [[Operation Hawthorne]] and returned to the U.S. to recuperate.<ref name=Becker>{{cite book|last=Becker|first=Elizabeth|title=You Don't Belong Here How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War|publisher=Public Affairs Books|year=2021|isbn=9781541768208}}</ref>{{rp|42}}

Her "Annals of War" series on the Vietnam War in ''[[The New Yorker]]'' (1972) earned her a Special [[Front Page Award]].<ref name=NYT-19721122>{{Cite news |title=Newswomen Name Winners of Awards |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/11/22/archives/newswomen-name-winners-of-awards.html?searchResultPosition=17 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=November 22, 1972 |access-date=November 10, 2020 |page=41 |volume=CXXII |issue=41941 |edition=Late City}}</ref> Her debut book, ''[[Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam]]'' (1972), was met with great acclaim when it was published, and is still considered one of the most notable books about the Vietnam War. For ''Fire in the Lake,'' she won the 1973 [[Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction]], the [[Bancroft Prize]] for history, and the U.S. [[National Book Award]] [[List of winners of the National Book Award#Current|in Contemporary Affairs]].<ref name=pulitzer>