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Frances FitzGerald
Frances FitzGerald

See also Frances Fitzgerald (Irish politician)

Frances FitzGerald (born October 21, 1940) is an American journalist and author. Frances Fitzgerald (born 1 August 1950 is an Irish Fine Gael politician and is currently a member of the 23rd Seanad Éireann on the Labour Panel Events 1512 - Martin Luther joins the theological faculty of the University of Wittenberg. Year 1940 ( MCMXL) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full 1940 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A journalist (also called a newspaperman) is a person who practices Journalism, the gathering and dissemination of information about current events trends An author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created She is primarily known for her acclaimed journalistic account of the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, or the Vietnam Conflict, occurred in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia

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Biography

FitzGerald was the daughter of New York lawyer Desmond FitzGerald and socialite Marietta Peabody. Marietta Peabody Tree ( 17 April, 1917 - 15 August, 1991) was an American Socialite and political supporter who represented As a teenager, she wrote voluminous letters to Senator Adlai Stevenson expressing her opinion on many subjects, a reflection of her deep interest in world affairs. This is about the mid-20th-century politician and diplomat for other American politicians so named see Adlai Stevenson (disambiguation. [1]

Career

FitzGerald is best known for her book, Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam (1972), which was met with great acclaim when it was published and remains one of the most notable books about the Vietnam War. Fire in the Lake The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam, written by Frances FitzGerald and published by both Back Bay Publishing and Little She was awarded both a Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for the book. The Pulitzer Prize, ˈpʊlɨtsɚ PULL-it-sər is an American award regarded as the highest national honor in Newspaper journalism, The National Book Awards are among the most eminent literary prizes in the United States. [2][3]

FitzGerald's subsequent volumes include America Revised, a highly critical review of high school history textbooks (1979); Cities on a Hill (1987); Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War (2000); and Vietnam: Spirits of the Earth (2002).

FitzGerald's writing has also appeared in The New Yorker, and the New York Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, Architectural Digest, and Rolling Stone. The New Yorker is an American Magazine that publishes reportage commentary criticism essays fiction satire cartoons and poetry The New York Review of Books (or NYREV or NYRB) is a semimonthly Magazine on Literature, Culture, and current The New York Times Magazine is a supplement to the Sunday The New York Times newspaper Esquire is a Men's magazine by the Hearst Corporation with a strong literary tradition Architectural Digest is a glossy American monthly Magazine. Its principal subject is Interior design, not -- as the name of the magazine Rolling Stone is a United States -based Magazine devoted to Music, Politics, and Popular culture that is published She serves on the editorial boards of The Nation and Foreign Policy, and is vice-president of PEN. This article is about the US Publication. For other newspapers magazines and alternate uses by the same name see The Nation (disambiguation. Foreign Policy is a bimonthly American Magazine founded in 1970 by Samuel P A pen (Latin pinna, feather is a Writing instrument used to apply Ink to a surface usually Paper.

References

  1. ^ Her letters are in the Adlai Stevenson Collection at Princeton University
  2. ^ Pulitzer Prize Winners: General Non-Fiction (web). Princeton University is a private Coeducational research university located in Princeton, New Jersey. pulitzer. org. Retrieved on 2008-02-28. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 202 BC - coronation ceremony of Liu Bang as Emperor Gaozu of Han takes place initiating four centuries of the Han Dynasty 's rule
  3. ^ National Book Awards - 1973 (web). National Book Awards (2007). Retrieved on 2008-03-03. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 1284 - Statute of Rhuddlan incorporated the Principality of Wales into England 1575 - Indian

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