Lucette Lagnado is the author of two memoirs about her Egyptian-Jewish family, "<a href="http://www.harpercollins.com/books/The-Man-in-the-White-Sharkskin-Suit-Lucette-Lagnado?isbn=9780060822187&HCHP=TB_The+Man+in+the+White+Sharkskin+Suit">The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: A Jewish Family's Exodus From Old Cairo to the New World</a>," published by Ecco in 2007, and more recently, with the same publisher, "<a href="http://www.harpercollins.com/books/The-Arrogant-Years-Lucette-Lagnado?isbn=9780061803673&HCHP=TB_The+Arrogant+Years">The Arrogant Years: One Girl's Search for Her Lost Youth, From Cairo to Brooklyn</a>." She is a reporter at The Wall Street Journal.