WSJ Writer Wins $100K

Lucette Lagnado, a former editor of The Forward, has won the 2008 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature. From Emily Meredith of The New York Press:

”Lagnado, who works as a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, then sent an email to the Jewish Book Council, which administers the prizes, just to make sure. They replied, confirming the earlier telephone conversation.

”As the night went on, her doubts grew stronger. ‘I literally did not believe by the end of the night that I had won.’

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