Old Money — Lacey Fosburgh

Lacey Fosburgh, an American Journalist, author and academic best known for her bestselling book, Closing Time: The True Story of the Goodbar Murder (1977) was born in 1942 and died in 1993. She was born in Manhattan, New York, to the journalist Hugh Whitney Fosburgh, author of View from the Air and Helen Edwards Fosburgh. Fosburgh graduated from the Brearley School in Manhattan and Sarah Lawrence College. She began her writing career for The New York Times, where she worked as a staff reporter from 1968 to 1973. After leaving the Times, she continued to work as a freelance journalist for that publication and others, notably covering the Patty Hearst/Symbionese Liberation Army case from 1974-1976 and the Peoples Temple case in 1978. She was also one of the few people to interview reclusive author J. D. Salinger. This book, Old Money, shows her attention to detail and research.