Lucianne Goldberg Obituary

Lucianne Goldberg was a literary agent and author from the United States. She was born in the city of Boston, Massachusetts. She went to high school in Alexandria before dropping out at the age of 16 to start working.

During her secondary education, Goldberg began her literary career at The Washington Post. Goldberg decided to pursue a position as a press aide in Lyndon Johnson’s unsuccessful presidential campaign in 1960.

She was appointed to the Democratic National Committee after John F. Kennedy won the Democratic nomination, and then to Kennedy’s Inaugural Committee.

Goldberg founded her literary agency to promote books that others would have avoided. In an article published during the fallout from the Lewinsky tapes, the New York Times described her as “an agent with a taste for right-wing, tell-all attack books.”

Her previous work included co-founding the Pussycat League, a group that campaigned against feminism and the Equal Rights Amendment in 1970.

Lucianne Goldberg passed away at the age of 87 on October 26, 2022. Lucianne Goldberg’s son Jonah Goldberg, announced on Twitter on Thursday, October 27, 2022, that his mother died at home on Wednesday. He did not specify the cause of death.