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'''Frances FitzGerald''' (born October 21, 1940)<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last1=Brennan|first1=Elizabeth A.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=63nvmt4HqTEC&q=frances+fitzgerald+born+1940+new+york&pg=PA261|title=Who's who of Pulitzer Prize Winners|last2=Clarage|first2=Elizabeth C.|date=1999|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-1-57356-111-2|language=en}}</ref> is an American journalist and historian, who is primarily known for ''[[Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam]]'' (1972), an account of the [[Vietnam War]]. It was a bestseller that won the [[Pulitzer Prize]], [[Bancroft Prize]], and [[National Book Award]].

 

Frances FitzGerald was born in [[New York City]], the only daughter of [[Desmond Fitzgerald (CIA officer)|Desmond FitzGerald]], an attorney on Wall Street, and socialite [[Marietta Peabody Tree|Marietta Peabody]].<ref name=":0" /> Her grandmother was a prominent activist in the civil rights movement of the 1960s,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/12/23/style/frances-fitzgerald-magazine-writer-married-to-james-p-sterba-reporter.html|title=Frances FitzGerald, Magazine Writer, Married to James P. Sterba, Reporter|date=1990-12-23|work=The New York Times|access-date=2017-03-13|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> and from an early age, FitzGerald was introduced to a wide range of political figures.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/literaryjournali00appl|url-access=registration|page=[https://archive.org/details/literaryjournali00appl/page/89 89]|quote=frances fitzgerald journalist.|title=Literary Journalism: A Biographical Dictionary of Writers and Editors|last=Applegate|first=Edd|date=1996-01-01|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=9780313299490|language=en}}</ref> Her parents divorced shortly after World War II. From 1950 to his death in 1967, her father was an intelligence officer with the [[Central Intelligence Agency]], becoming a deputy director.