The simple tableau is so rich with meaning that whether represented on the mantelpiece or in the mind, it seems suspended, complete unto itself, somewhere in eternity.

Morgenthau. Lucinda Franks is a former staff writer for The New York Times and Lucinda Franks has written for The New Yorker The New York Times Magazine and The Atlantic. She lives in New York City with her husband former longtime District Attorney for New York County Robert M.

A graduate of Vassar College class of 1968 Franks discovered that her father had been a secret agent during World War II and wrote a book about it My Father's Secret War: A Memoir in 2007. Lucinda Franks is a former staff writer for The New York Times and Lucinda Franks has written for The New Yorker The New York Times Magazine and The Atlantic.