Lucette Lagnado

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Lucette Lagnado (born in Cairo, Egypt) is an American journalist and novelist. She is a reporter for the Wall Street Journal.

Lagnado is a graduate of Vassar College. She is married to journalist Douglas Feiden, and lives in New York City. ^[1] ^[2]

She was born to a Jewish family in Cairo, Egypt, and wrote a prize-winning memoir about her childhood, The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit. ^[3] ^[4]

She says that in the future she may write a companion book to "Sharkskin" in order to tell the story of her mother, Edith.^[5]

[edit] Bibliography

Children of the Flames: Dr. Josef Mengele and the Untold Story of the Twins of Auschwitz
The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit

[edit] 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”
USC Annenberg School’s Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting, finalist 2004