Lee Lescaze Explained

Lee Adrien Lescaze (December 8, 1938 – July 26, 1996)^[1] was an American journalist from Manhattan. After attending Harvard University, he worked as an editor successively at The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal.^{[2] [3]} During his Washington D.C., assignment, the FBI rented his Georgetown house as a safe house in the ABSCAM sting operation.^[4]

Lee Lescaze was the son of the famous early American modernist architect William Lescaze (1896–1969).^[5]

Lescaze had three children from his first marriage: daughters Alexandra and Miranda, and son Adrien, who died in 1989 of injuries sustained in an automobile accident. ^[6] In 1986, he married American author and journalist Lynn Darling.^{[7] [8]} The couple had one daughter, Zoe Eliza Lescaze.^[9]

Notes and References

1. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936–2007
2. News: Lee Lescaze, Editor And a Reporter, 57. The New York Times. July 28, 1996. 21 January 2014.
3. Web site: Osnos. Peter. Peter Osnos. Two Lives Entwined: Love and Its Costs. The Wall Street Journal. June 2, 2007. 21 January 2014.
4. News: Scamlord. Lescaze. Lee. The Washington Post. February 4, 1980. August 9, 2014.
5. Web site: William Lescaze, architect, 72, dies. New York Times. 10 February 1969. 13 February 2019.
6. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1996/07/28/ex-post-foreign-editor-lee-a-lescaze-dies/39615771-d64c-4390-9c50-5670ca801586/
7. News: 1986-01-19 . Lynn Darling, Writer, Wed To Lee A. Lescaze, Editor . en-US . . 2023-12-28 . 0362-4331.
8. News: 1996-07-28 . Lee Lescaze, Editor And a Reporter, 57 . en-US . . 2024-01-01 . 0362-4331.
9. Web site: Smith . Neil . 2014-01-17 . Lessons of the Woods: A New York Writer Moves to Woodstock to Find Her Way . 2023-12-28 . Valley News.