![]() ![]() ![]() įitzGerald's subsequent published works include America Revised (1979), a highly critical review of history textbooks Cities on a Hill (1987) Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War (2000), a Pulitzer finalist "Rewriting American history", a short article in The Norton Reader and Vietnam: Spirits of the Earth (2002).įitzGerald's writing has appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, Architectural Digest, and Rolling Stone. National Book Award in Contemporary Affairs. For it she won the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and the U.S. ![]() She graduated magna cum laude from Radcliffe College.įitzGerald's first book Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam (1972) was met with great acclaim when it was published, and remains one of the most notable books about the Vietnam War. As a teenager she wrote voluminous letters to Governor Adlai Stevenson expressing her opinion on many subjects, a reflection of her deep interest in world affairs. FitzGerald's parents were New York lawyer Desmond FitzGerald and socialite Marietta Peabody. ![]()
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