Lucille Burman Flato (September 21, 1922 – January 7, 2004) was a writer, American Communist Party member and union activist.
Flato was born in Oakland, California, to Daisy Whitney and Frank Burman.
[1] She moved to New York City as a young woman where she became a communist party member and met her future husband Charles Flato, the writer and Soviet agent.
Besides contributions for other publications, she wrote extensively for the People's Weekly World under the name of Lucille Whitney.
[1] In 1995, she graduated cum laude from San Francisco State University.