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Frances FitzGerald (born October 21 , 1940 ) is an American Journalist and Author . BIOGRAPHY The daughter of Harvard law graduate and registered New York Lawyer Desmond Fitzgerald, and socialite and Democratic Party supporter Marietta Peabody , Frankie was born into a high society family of political tension. While her mother started after her birth as a fact checker, and latterly writer for ''" Time "'' magazine; at night her parents partied with the Astors, Paleys, and Warburgs.http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1316/is_n1_v30/ai_20239566 However, he mother's liberal Democratic Party views clashed with the Republican Party views of her husband, and created tensions in the marriage. After America entered the Second World War in December 1940, Marietta accepted a post as part of the American delegation assisting the British Ministry Of Information . When Fitzgerald left New York to fulfil a role in the war effort, Marietta started a passionate and intense affair with the film director John Huston .http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1316/is_n1_v30/ai_20239566 Marietta and Ronald Tree Although contemplating marriage with Huston, while working with the British Ministry of Information, Marietta met the MP for , but found herself bored with English country life. Tree and most of his friends were Conservatives , and Democrat Marietta again found herself politically isolated. Recognising his wife's unhappiness, and for the first time in his life short of money, Tree sold Ditchley and agreed to return to in both his 1952 and 1956 Presedential campaigns, and taking the post of American representative to the United Nations Commission On Human Rights in 1961 at the behest of John F Kennedy . Career As a teenager, Frances wrote extensive, voluminous letters to '' (1972), which was met with great acclaim when it was published, and remains one of the most notable books about the Vietnam War . FitzGerald was awarded both a Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for the book. FitzGerald's subsequent volumes include '' America Revised '', a highly critical review of high school history textbooks (1979); ''Cities on a Hill'' (1981); ''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 ''. She serves on the editorial boards of '' The Nation '' and '' Foreign Policy '', and is vice-president of PEN . REFERENCES EXTERNAL LINKS
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