Lucinda Franks (born July 16, 1946) is an American journalist.
She is a former staff writer for The New York Times, and has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, and The Atlantic.She is also a winner of the Pulitzer Prize, for her reporting on the life and death of Diana Oughton, a member of The Weathermen, an anti-Vietnam war terrorist group, winning the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1971, together with Thomas Powers.She is the youngest person to win a Pulitzer.