Lynn Darling

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Lynn Darling
Born (1952-01-09) January 9, 1952 (age 71)
Occupation
  • Author
  • Journalist
NationalityUS American
Alma mater Harvard University (1972)
Spouse Lee Lescaze (1986-1996, his death)

Lynn Darling (born January 9, 1952) is an American journalist and author. She wrote for The Washington Post and became senior editor at Esquire . She is author of the non-fiction books Necessary Sins and Out of the Woods.

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Early life and education

Darling was born January 9, 1952, to Colonel Howard N. Darling and Dorothy Elizabeth Darling (née Budnik). She has two brothers, Howard Christopher Darling and Eric Joseph Darling. [1]

Darling was an army brat and spent her childhood moving every few years between bases in Japan, Hawaii, and Kansas. She graduated from Wilbert Tucker Woodson High School in Fairfax County, Virginia in 1968 before attending Harvard University, where she worked as a reporter for the Harvard Crimson. [2] She graduated in 1972. [3]

Career

After graduating from Harvard University in 1972, Darling joined the staff of the Richmond Mercury, a local newspaper founded by Crimson alumni, including Frank Rich, [3] before being hired by Ben Bradlee of The Washington Post. She worked primarily for the Styles section. [4]

While at The Post, Darling met her future husband, then-married editor Lee Adrien Lescaze. Their affair and subsequent marriage was captured in her 2007 work of non-fiction, Necessary Sins. [5] [6] When Lee Lescaze was forced to leave the Post over the relationship, the pair moved to New York City, where Darling became a senior editor at Esquire .[ citation needed ]

In 2014, she published the non-fiction book Out of the Woods. [7]

Personal life

Darling married American editor and journalist Lee Lescaze on January 18, 1986 [8] in Washington, D.C. The couple have one daughter, Zoe Eliza Lescaze. [9]

Lescaze died on July 26, 1996 from lung cancer. [10]

Publications

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  1. ↑ "Washington-area obituaries of note". The Washington Post . 2015-02-05. Retrieved 2024-01-01.
  2. ↑ "Lynn M. Darling | Writer Page". The Harvard Crimson . Retrieved 2023-12-28.
  3. 1 2 Lambert, Craig (April 2007). "Reviewing "Reality"". Harvard Magazine. Retrieved 2023-12-28.
  4. ↑ Darling, Lynn (August 2016). "The Stacks Chat: Lynn Darling" (Interview). Interviewed by Alex Belth.
  5. ↑ Cohn, Alison S. (2007-04-06). "Is This Really 'Necessary'? | Arts | The Harvard Crimson". The Harvard Crimson . Retrieved 2023-12-28.
  6. ↑ Osnos, Peter (2007-06-02). "Two Lives Entwined: Love and Its Costs". Wall Street Journal . ISSN   0099-9660 . Retrieved 2023-12-28.
  7. ↑ Newman, Leigh (2014-02-21). "Rural Life". The New York Times . ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2023-12-28.
  8. ↑ "Lynn Darling, Writer, Wed To Lee A. Lescaze, Editor". The New York Times . 1986-01-19. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2023-12-28.
  9. ↑ Smith, Neil (2014-01-17). "Lessons of the Woods: A New York Writer Moves to Woodstock to Find Her Way". Valley News. Retrieved 2023-12-28.
  10. ↑ "Lee Lescaze, Editor And a Reporter, 57". The New York Times . 1996-07-28. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2024-01-01.
  11. ↑ "Necessary Sins by Lynn Darling". Publishers Weekly . 2007-02-26. Retrieved 2024-01-01.
  12. ↑ "Out of the Woods: A Memoir of Wayfinding by Lynn Darling". Publishers Weekly . 2013-11-04. Retrieved 2024-01-01.
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