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Frances FitzGerald
American journalist and author / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Frances FitzGerald (born October 21, 1940)[1] is an American journalist and historian. She was born in New York City. She is known for her written work Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam (1972), which is about the Vietnam War. It won the Pulitzer Prize, Bancroft Prize, and National Book Award.
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