About Lucinda Franks

My new book, which will be released in August, is called 'Timeless: Love, Morgenthau, and Me.' It's an intimate memoir about my husband, Robert Morgenthau, NY's former DA for 35 years, and me; the successes, trials, adventures, both traumatic and hilarious, of our marriage. It also gives inside information about my husband's most famous cases - The Central Park Jogger, Astor Elder Abuse, BCCI, Tyco, Goetz and others. It has gotten some wonderful reviews from prominent writers. It's available on Amazon for pre-ordering.
I am the author of four books: 'My Father's Secret War: A Memoir', 'Wild Apples': a novel, and 'Waiting Out A War: The exile of John Picciano.'
I am also a journalist who was on the staff of The New York Times, and have written for The New Yorker, New York magazine, The Daily Beast and other publications.

I have two children with my husband, five stepchildren, a little puffy white dog, and a couple of cats who come visiting from my daughters' apartment nearby.
My husband, after his retirement as DA, still works - he is at Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz law firm - and writes Op Ed pieces on the persecution of immigrants and the desperate need for treatment of soldiers with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. He has gone from being an objective prosecutor to being a passionate crusader. It is great to see him flourish at such an advanced age in his second career.
But Bob is a farmer at heart, and we love to go up to our apple orchards and vegetable farm in the lower Hudson valley, which our son Josh, 30, has made into an organic enterprise. At Fishkill Farms, there are new free range chickens, and at the big farm store, fresh pressed cider and other natural and homemade foods.