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Lucette Lagnado (born in Cairo, Egypt) is an American journalist and memoirist. She is a reporter for the Wall Street Journal.

Lagnado attended P.S. 205 in Bensonhurst, New York City, and is a graduate of Vassar College. She is married to journalist Douglas Feiden, and lives in New York City and Sag Harbor on the East End of Long Island. UCLA Anderson School of Management | Gerald Loeb Awards | Lucette Lagnado WEDDINGS;Lucette Lagnado, Douglas Feiden - New York Times

She was born to a Jewish family in Cairo, Egypt, and wrote a prize-winning memoir about her childhood, The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World. The book, published by Ecco, was awarded the 2008 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature. The prize, which is administered by the New York-based Jewish Book Council, comes with a $100,000 stipend and is the richest cash award in the Jewish literary world. The presentation of the Rohr Prize took place in Jerusalem in April, 2008. e107 Powered Website: 2008 Sami Rohr Prize Winner Lagnado to receive Rohr prize here | Jerusalem Post"The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit" was optioned by producer Anthony Bregman ("Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"), according to a December, 2008 announcement in Publishers Marketplace.In November, 2008, Ecco announced it would publish a companion volume to "Sharkskin" that would tell the story of Lagnado's mother, Edith. "The Arrogant Years: A Young Girl's Quest for Her Lost Youth" will juxtapose the author's own coming of age in New York with that of her mother in Cairo, revealing how the choices she made meant both a liberation from Old World traditions and the loss of a comforting and familiar community. Publication is planned for 2011. Interview with Lucette Lagnado, winner of Sami Rohr Prize

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