Lacey Fosburgh (October 3, 1942 – January 11, 1993) was an American journalist, author, and academic best known for her controversial book, Closing Time: The True Story of the Goodbar Murder (1977).
In 1977, Fosburgh—appropriating the title of Judith Rossner's acclaimed best-selling novel, Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1975)--published her first book, Closing Time: The True Story of the "Goodbar" Murder, the story of the 1973 slaying of young schoolteacher Roseann Quinn, which Fosburgh had covered for The New York Times.
Although Truman Capote remarked that the book proved Fosburgh "a skillful, selective reporter and also a literary artist",[1] her mixing of fact and fiction (in a technique she called "interpretive biography")[2] proved controversial.
In 1980, Fosburgh admitted to The New York Times that she had "created scenes or dialogue I think it reasonable and fair to assume could have taken place, perhaps even did.
"[3] Her second book, Old Money (1983), was a novel which was understood to be largely autobiographical, about growing up in a wealthy, troubled family.