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Lynne Duke is an American journalist and author. She is best known for her work as a reporter for The Washington Post, where she covered the 1992 presidential campaign and the 1994 World Cup. She has also written for The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and The Miami Herald. Duke was born in Los Angeles, California, and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1978 with a degree in English. She began her career as a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle in 1979. She then moved to The Washington Post in 1984, where she covered the 1992 presidential campaign and the 1994 World Cup. In 1995, Duke moved to The New York Times, where she wrote about race and politics. She then moved to The Los Angeles Times in 1997, where she wrote about race and politics. She returned to The Washington Post in 2000, where she wrote about race and politics. Duke has written two books, The Washington Post's Black in America (2000) and The Miami Herald's Black in America (2002). She has also written for The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and The New Republic. As of 2021, Lynne Duke's net worth is estimated to be $1 million.

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Age 57 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 29 July, 1956
Birthday 29 July
Birthplace Los Angeles, California, United States
Date of death April 19, 2013,
Died Place Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
Nationality United States

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2009

Duke was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer in 2009. The cancer was metastatic. After her death in 2013, the National Association of Black Journalists established the Lynne Duke International Fellowship to honor the memory and legacy of the longtime journalist and member of their community.

2008

After her return to the U.S., Duke served as the Washington Post New York City bureau chief for a year. She later returned to Washington D.C. and wrote long-form features for the Style section, eventually becoming editor and retiring from the paper in 2008. She immediately began work on a second book, for which she was awarded a fellowship from The Alicia Patterson Foundation.

2003

Her 2003 book, Mandela, Mobutu and Me, is a critically acclaimed memoir chronicling her four-year term as chief of the Washington Post′s African bureau and was nominated for the National Community of Black Writers' Hurston-Wright Legacy Award in 2004.

1985

After graduating from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1985, she began her career in journalism at the Miami Herald. She covered significant events there, as well as for the Washington Post, where she began working in 1987. Her work includes important Pulitzer-nominated reporting on the 1980s crack cocaine crisis, coverage of the aftermath of apartheid and its abolition in South Africa – she went there for The Washington Post for the first time in 1990, when Nelson Mandela was released from prison after 27 years – and reporting on the life of New York City after 9/11.

1956

Lynne Duke (July 29, 1956 – April 19, 2013) was a journalist and author.