Lucette Lagnado was born in Cairo, Egypt.  She is a senior special writer and investigative reporter for The Wall Street Journal, where she has received numerous prizes for her work.  She and her family left Egypt as refugees when she was a small child, an experience that helped shape and form her recent memoirs, The Arrogant Years and The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit.  She is also the coauthor of Children of the Flames: Dr. Josef Mengele and the Untold Story of the Twins of Auschwitz, which has been translated into nearly a dozen languages.  Ms.  Lagnado resides with her husband, journalist Douglas Feiden, in Manhattan and Sag Harbor, New York.

The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit

Lucette Lagnado’ s father, Leon, is a successful Egyptian businessman and boulevardier who dressed in his signature white sharkskin suit, makes deals and trades at Shepherd's Hotel and at the dark bar of the Nile Hilton.   After the fall of King Farouk and the rise of the Nasser dictatorship, Leon loses everything and his family is forced to flee, abandoning a life once marked by beauty and luxury to plunge into hardship and poverty, as they take flight for any country that would have them.