Name Lauren Terrazzano Died May 2007 | Role Journalist | |
Education Boston University, Columbia University, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism | ||
Lauren Elizabeth Terrazzano (March 28, 1968 - May 15, 2007) was an American journalist best known for her "Life, With Cancer" Newsday column and other writings about her illness with cancer.
Biography
She was born on March 28, 1968.
Terrazzano graduated from high school in Tewksbury, Massachusetts. In 1990, Terrazzano earned a bachelor's degree from Boston University. After graduating from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism in 1994, Terrazzano worked at The New York Daily News and The Record before joining Newsday in 1996. She was part of a team of reporters who won the Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the TWA Flight 800 crash in 1996.
She was diagnosed in August, 2004. She died of lung cancer at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan.
She died on May 15, 2007.