Lucette Lagnado

Lucette Lagnado
Born Lucette Matalon Lagnado
Cairo, Egypt
Nationality American
Education B.A. Vassar College
Occupation Journalist
Spouse(s) Douglas Feiden

Lucette Lagnado is an Egyptian-born American journalist and memoirist. She is a reporter for The Wall Street Journal.

Biography

Lagnado was born to a Jewish family in Cairo, Egypt.[1] She attended P.S. 205 in Bensonhurst Brooklyn, New York City, and is a graduate of Vassar College. Lagnado 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, published by Ecco, 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.[2][3] "The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit" was optioned by producer Anthony Bregman ("Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"), according to a December, 2008 announcement in Publishers Marketplace.

In September, 2011, she published a companion volume to "Sharkskin" that tells the story of Lagnado's mother, Edith. "The Arrogant Years: One Girl's Search for Her Lost Youth, from Cairo to Brooklyn" (Ecco/HarperCollins) juxtaposes the author's own coming of age in New York with that of her mother in Cairo, revealing how the choices she made meant both a liberation from Old World traditions and the loss of a comforting and familiar community. The book was described by the publisher as an epic family saga of faith and fragility.[4]

Personal life

In 1995, she married journalist Douglas Feiden in a Jewish ceremony at the Manhattan Sephardic Congregation; the couple lives in New York City and Sag Harbor on the East End of Long Island.[5][6]

Bibliography

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

Honors and prizes

References

  1. ↑ "Starting as a Journalist, Ending as a Memoirist". niemanreports.org. Retrieved 2018-03-17.
  2. ↑ e107 Powered Website: 2008 Sami Rohr Prize Winner Archived 2008-12-08 at the Wayback Machine.
  3. ↑ Lagnado to receive Rohr prize here | Jerusalem Post
  4. ↑ Interview with Lucette Lagnado, winner of Sami Rohr Prize
  5. ↑ UCLA Anderson School of Management | Gerald Loeb Awards | Lucette Lagnado Archived 2007-10-24 at the Wayback Machine.
  6. ↑ New York Times: "Lucette Lagnado, Douglas Feiden" December 31, 1995
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