Lucinda Franks, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, dead at 74

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Lucinda Franks — who wrote a loving memoir of her 42-year marriage to late Manhattan DA Robert Morgenthau — died Wednesday night after a long battle with cancer, her family said.

She was 74. The Boston-born journalist got her start as a coffee girl at the London office of United Press International, digging up stories in her own time and traveling to Northern Ireland during the Troubles.