Lacey Fosburgh

Lacey Fosburgh (3 October 1942 – January 11, 1993) was an American journalist, author, and academic best known for her bestselling book, Closing Time: The True Story of the Goodbar Murder (1977). She was born in Manhattan, New York, to the journalist Hugh Whitney Fosburgh and his wife, 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, w... more

Lacey Fosburgh (3 October 1942 – January 11, 1993) was an American journalist, author, and academic best known for her bestselling book, Closing Time: The True Story of the Goodbar Murder (1977). She was born in Manhattan, New York, to the journalist Hugh Whitney Fosburgh and his wife, 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, in 1974. In 1977, Fosburgh published her first book, Closing Time: The True Story of the Goodbar Murder. A true story that grew out of a 1973 murder case Fosburgh had covered for the New... less