Lucette Lagnado

Lucette Lagnado (born in Cairo, Egypt) is an American journalist and memoirist. 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 and Sag Harbor on the East End of Long Island. [ [http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/x4951.xml UCLA Anderson School of Management | Gerald Loeb Awards | Lucette Lagnado ] ] [ [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9800E7D71239F932A05751C1A963958260 WEDDINGS;Lucette Lagnado, Douglas Feiden - New York Times ] ]

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: My Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World". The book was awarded the 2008 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature. The prize, which is administered by the New York-based Jewish Book Council, comes with a $100,000 stipend and is the richest cash award in the Jewish literary world. The presentation of the Rohr Prize took place in Jerusalem in April, 2008. [ [http://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/page.php?166 e107 Powered Website: 2008 Sami Rohr Prize Winner ] ] [ [http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1206632373161&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull Lagnado to receive Rohr prize here | Jerusalem Post ] ]

She says that in the future she may write a companion book to "Sharkskin" in order to tell the story of her mother, Edith. [ [http://www.jewishliteraryreview.com/post/2008/02/Interview-with-Lucette-Lagnado-winner-Sami-Rohr.aspx Interview with Lucette Lagnado, winner of Sami Rohr Prize ] ]

Bibliography

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

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

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